Word: potter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Supreme Court, a new desk and a group of filing cases appeared in the larger of the two rooms used by newshawks in the basement of the new Court building across the plaza from the Capitol. With the furniture, in moved a Court Clerk named Nelson A. Potter. Promptly the ungrateful Press announced even the Supreme Court now had a press agent. Actually Clerk Potter had been appointed to put an end to old complaints of the Press that it was unduly difficult to see or obtain copies of official Court documents. His job, to make available briefs, decisions...
Whether Clerk Potter's new job was but a sign of the times or whether the nine Justices realized that with the New Year there would be a real need for Mr. Potter's services, was not revealed. But the day when the Court met for the first time in 1936 was a busy one for Mr. Potter and the press room. That afternoon in the courtroom upstairs after Mr. Justice Cardozo had read a minor decision...
...their Astor Street apartment for one evening and into the massive family mansion on Chicago's Lake Shore Drive moved Mr. & Mrs- Potter Palmer. Cleaned, redecorated, refurnished from warehouses, rehung with what paintings had not been given to galleries, the long-time citadel of Chicago society was open for the first time in two years for the debut of the Palmers' youngest daughter Pauline. That night 300 socialites rolled up to the carriage porch, hurried across the mosaic reception hall, danced in the highceilinged, velvet-paneled ballroom where the first Mrs. Palmer entertained King Edward VII, then Prince...
Homer E. Newell, Jr. '36, of Holyoke; Hurbert H. Nexon '37, of Brookline; Julian Nieckoski '37, of Deerfield; John A. O'Keefe '37, of Lynn; Bernard A. Orkin '38, of Dorchester; Leo Orris '37, of Roxbury; Richard Paull '38, of Barre; Fred F. Plimpton '36, of Worter; Francis J. Potter '37, of Cambridge; Albert L. Rabinovitz '36, of Chelsea; Robert H. Rawson '36, of Abington; John J. Reidy, Jr. '38, of Roslindale; Randall W. Richards, Jr. '38, of Lexington; Melvin Richter '37, of Dorchester; Lorne Rickert '36, of Winchester; Edward H. Riddle '37, of Cambridge; Martin Ritvo '38, of Cambridge...
Undeterred by these bitter blasts from Chicago's two best-known critics, some 4,500 people rushed to the Art Institute on opening day last week, consumed gallons of tea dispensed by Mrs. Potter Palmer and a group of subsidiary socialites, looked at the pictures...