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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Supreme Court, is its youngest, biggest, strapping-strongest member. He is but 55, He was graduated by Amherst College the year before Calvin Coolidge, in 1894. For 14 years (1910-24) he was Columbia University's Dean of Law and spent eleven months, between quitting that post and taking his present one, at being U. S. Attorney General. There was a flurry before Mr. Associate Justice Stone's confirmation by the Senate over the fact that he once represented J. P. Morgan & Co., and a storm over the fact that he was then trying to prosecute-some said...
...reverberating "Magruder incident" closed peacefully last week, or almost closed. Various congressmen rumbled around Washington about an investigation of the charges brought last fortnight by Rear Admiral Thomas Pickett Magruder, who wrote in the Saturday Evening Post that the Navy is over-officered, bound with expensive red tape and burdened with idle ships and shipyards [TIME, Oct. 3]. But officialdom was quiet. Admiral Magruder was not haled up for discipline...
...that certain "Sic 'Em Boys" (copy-starved newspaper correspondents) had ridiculously misrepresented his attitude when they reported him scowling and gesturing at news of Secretary Wilbur's alleged ire. Washington stirred in anticipation of another screed from him, soon to be published in the Saturday Evening Post...
...Howard of the New York Telegram and 25 other Scripps-Howard newspapers, W. T. Dewart of the New York Sun, also General Manager Kent Cooper of the Associated Press; also Editor Carr Van Anda of the New York Times, Julian Starkweather Mason of the New York Evening Post, H. S. Pollard and John H. Tennant of the New York Evening World and Marc Rose of the Buffalo News; also Editorial Writers Walter Lippmann (World) and Rollo Ogden (Times); also Vice President Frank R. Kent of the Baltimore Sun. Among notable absentees was Editor Arthur Brisbane of the New York American...
Walter Hampden, only prominent actor-manager in the U. S. theatre,* was last week elected president of The Players. He succeeds the late John Drew and, according to the tradition of the club, will hold the post until death. Other presidents have been Edwin Booth, the founder; Joseph Jefferson...