Word: noting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that there were serious objections to "packing" the Court. Justin Miller received his comeuppance while he was propounding a theory that the age of Justices of the Supreme Court was proportional to the number of laws they found unconstitutional. One of two women spectators sitting together passed up a note to Senator Van Nuys...
Said the Senator: "I have received a note from a member of the audience...
...Could you tell us the average age of world dictators when they come into power?' " Said Mr. Miller: "No, I could not." Everyone turned to stare at the two women. One of them was easily recognized as Alice Longworth, but she was not the writer of the note. Columnist Dorothy Thompson, wife of Sinclair (It Can't Happen Here) Lewis, was. One of the witnesses was Ferdinand Pecora, Justice of New York's Supreme Court. Familiar with Senate investigationl from his Job as chief inquisitor in the banking investigation of 1933-34 he easily made headlines...
United Gas Co. added an ironic note by revealing that up to this January it had sold the New London School Board a natural gas mixed with a tell-tale odorant that might have prevented the blast. But the most ironic product of the tragedy was right on top of the wreckage. Blown out of the ruined building was a section of blackboard on which someone had scrawled: "Oil and natural gas are East Texas' greatest mineral blessings. Without them this school would not be here, and none of us would be here learning our lessons...
Another curious phenomenon which Uncle Earnest pointed out was the differences of attitude among anthropologists according to nationality. "While there is, of course, no unanimity of opinion as to man's origin among the German students, it is worthy of note that the prevalent and perhaps predominant sentiment of Ger man anthropologists is and has been for a number of decades decidedly pro-ape. . . . If the Germans are on the side of the apes, the English have arrayed themselves almost solidly on the side of the angels. Thus the opinion of Sir Arthur Keith and Le Gros Clark separates...