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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Justices Butler and McReynolds dissented. Justice Reed did not participate in the case because he had appeared for TVA as Solicitor General. Justice Frankfurter was sworn in only a few minutes before the decision was read...
...cliff to find support where there was not a root or weed to grasp. There was the momentary retention of position in the sphere of the light, then the same abrupt relaxation of their unaccountable grip and the rapid descent as in the lives of men he had read about, like Shelley, perhaps, or Chatterton...
...officers of the 1939 Board will relinquish their posts to the officers-elect of the incoming 1940 Board. President, Cleveland Amory, Managing Editor Caleb Foote, Business Manager J. Francis Dammann, Jr., Editorial Chairman Ellsworth S. Grant, Executive Editor John T. McCutcheon, Jr. and Photographic Chairman Roger W. Loewl will read reports of the activities of their respective departments in the 1938-1939 period...
...Bolles was quite chagrined when he read in the Boston Herald that Lauren C. Kingman, Jr., of West Concord, Harvard senior and member of last year's junior varsity crew, broke the Harvard ice cream record, downing no less than 27 dishes of peppermint stick ice cream smothered in chocolate sauce. At the Adams House dining hall, however, Mrs. Anne Jarrett, house hostess, denied the feat...
...fourth guest puzzled Vag the most-Sophia. She was always bothering Vag to buy books or take them out of the library; then she'd ask him to read them to her. Sometimes he would-that is when she looked pretty, but there was never a girl whose appearance varied more from...