Word: pearsons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pair of Washington newspapermen has made the Justices of the U. S. Supreme Court more uncomfortable than able, caustic Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen. Their Nine Old Men was a best seller of 1936. Their Washington Merry-Go-Round, political gossip column, rarely misses a chance to plant a tack on a Justice's padded chair. But last week it was the Court's turn to make Pearson and Allen uncomfortable, and they did a thoroughgoing...
...Court's opinion was a copyright case with a unique twist. In 1932 Pearson and Allen put out their second book, More Merry-Go-Round, which contained, among other things, the statements that Justice James Clark McReynolds was "Apparently . . . both stupid [and] lazy," and that "for a man of his sheer ugliness of disposition he has come far." Also in the book was a sketch of Treasury Secretary Ogden Mills, much of which was lifted from a defunct magazine called The Washingtonian. Pearson had edited The Washingtonian for two issues, and obtained permission from Rixey Smith, author...
Main legal issue was whether she had filed the copies "promptly," as specified by the Copyright Act of 1909. The District of Columbia Court of Appeals ruled she had not. To crusty Justice McReynolds last week fell the job of reversing that decision and setting Messrs. Pearson and Allen on their own tack. Read he: "While no action can be maintained before copies are actually deposited, mere delay will not destroy the right to sue. . . . The cause will be remanded to the District Court [for the setting of damages]." Four of the original Nine Old Men concurred. Dissenters were Justices...
...semi-final round of the University Club fourth annual invitation squash racquets tournament, December 28, Kim Cannavarro was defeated by Stanley W. Pearson of Princeton...
Four of the five Harvard players survived the first round. They were Cannavarro, Frank Appleton, Jim Rousmaniere, and Dan Ladd. The Pearson-Cannavarro semi-final was a blaze of hard-hitting, with little change of pace by either player...