Word: nothingness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thus 82-year-old Louis Brandeis, like Willis Van Devanter and George Sutherland before him, took advantage of a 1937 judiciary act, the ghost of Franklin Roosevelt's ambitious Court Plan-permitting Justices with ten years' service to retire on their full $20,000 salary after 70. Whether...
Lawyer Stanfield appealed to Federal District Judge Wayne G. Borah (the Idaho Senator's nephew), who ruled against Joe; then to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. Here Judge Joseph C. Hutcheson Jr. found that there was nothing in the Labor Department's record against Joe to warrant...
It takes at least seven years to make a doctor-two years of premedical courses (many medical schools demand four), four years in a medical school, one to three years of interning. Thus most physicians do not open offices until they are almost 30, and many of them know little...
Frederick Ecker saw nothing but good in this vastness. Slight, white-haired and precise at 71, he appeared in a natty pin-stripe suit, only a slight trembling in his hands showing his nervousness. When he went to work as a Metropolitan office-boy at $4 a week in 1883...
Indefatigable Chairman McKinsey, who had never before held a corporate job, was nothing if not drastic. He lopped off the losing wholesale business entirely, along with 1,600 employes. He reorganized the management of Chicago's Merchandise Mart, each of whose first 19 floors contains six acres of floor...