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Word: owens (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fortnight ago his one remaining mainstay, solid old Pierce Butler, died (TIME, Nov. 27). In silence last week he heard Justice Owen Roberts read the majority decision reaffirming the civil liberties of the U. S. citizen, proclaim the right to pamphleteer without a police license.* The decision presented no new point of Constitutional doctrine, but to many a thoughtful U. S. citizen came as a solemn reminder, in anxious days, that beneath the stated rights of citizenship lies a rock-founded base guaranteeing their preservation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUDICIARY: Alone | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

...green Directors' Room on the 48th floor of G.E.'s pink Manhattan skyscraper. They sat through the reading of the minutes. Then, white-haired, sparky G.E. President Gerard Swope rose to his full five feet four inches, read to the assembled directors a letter, while Board Chairman Owen D. Young puffed a pipe. Nobody was taken by surprise. The previous evening they had all had a quiet evening talking about it at the Metropolitan Club: after serving 17 years together, and reaching G.E.'s retirement age of 65, Swope and Young wished to retire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANUFACTURING: Bloodless Abdication | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

...victorious from this game also, with the "foot" in football very evident. Charlie Buell kicked two field goals, Arnold Horween one, for the game's only scores. The next two years saw almost identical games. Yale entered the favorite, emerged beaten 10 to 3, with Charlie Buell and George Owen doing yeoman service for the winners on both occasions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Summary of last 20 Years of Harvard-Yale Grid Contests | 11/25/1939 | See Source »

While in the long run the participants of these corrective courses are liable to be of the non-athletic type, such is not always the case, as is evinced by George Owen, Jr. '28, a nine-letter man who underwent this period of corrective training...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SPORTS of the CRIMSON | 11/24/1939 | See Source »

...first time in the history of the Ames Competition at the Law School, a Justice of the United States Supreme Court will be one of the judges when the Honorable Owen J. Roberts presides at be finals on January 18, John O. Rhome, faculty assistant in charge of the competition, revealed yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: JUSTICE ROBERTS TO DECIDE FINALS OF AMES TOURNEY | 11/23/1939 | See Source »

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