Word: recentes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Supreme Court convention places the most recent appointee to the bench at the chair farthest to the left of the Chief Justice, who sits in the middle. Since 1916, Justice Brandeis' old bronze reading lamp has gradually moved closer to the centre. Now the oldest Justice on the Court, he sits on the left hand of snowy-bearded Charles Evans Hughes, who Brandeis privately tells friends is the best Chief Justice he has known. Since 1916, nothing closer to a further questioning of Justice Brandeis' fitness as a member of the Court has occurred than the President...
This series of assertions was premature, but served the Opposition's purpose, bringing the Prime Minister limping heavily out of No. 10 and into the House of Commons where British sportsmanship assured him a great cheer. Mr. Chamberlain heartily laughed off such Labor questions about his recent exchange of personal missives on Spain with Benito Mussolini (TIME, Aug. 9) as: "Could these letters properly be described as love letters?" The House was told by British War Secretary Leslie Hore-Belisha what has long been known and frequently denied, that the Spanish Rightists have installed artillery commanding Britain...
Because a very poor semblance of the democratic process already existed in many of the South American states, recent developments in Brazil are not wholly new to this continent. As Professor Haring points out in an interview in this morning's Crimson, the danger that the new Brazil administration is an extension of the political domain of Germany, Italy, or Japan, is slight. In fact, the absence of any definite link between President Vargas and the Integralista, or Brazilian Fascist Party, and the very fact that news dispatches declaring the new regime to be totalitarian are not censored, reenforce...
...December 16 is the only other game before the Christmas holidays. The team will take its usual vacation trip this year, but where it will go and what teams it will engage are as yet uncertain. It will probably not go to Lake Placid as it has in recent years...
Winston Churchill's Great Contemporaries is a collection of 21 essays, product of eight years of scattered writings, on various figures of importance in recent European political history, by England's irrepressible bad boy of politics. He is soundest in his estimates of older statesmen and most informative in his reminiscences of personal contacts with World War generals. But as Author Churchill approaches the present his passionate conservatism leads him increasingly astray from accepted opinion. He defends as a "forlorn" patriot the opèra bouffe Boris Savinkov (prerevolutionary Russian spy who worked both for the Tsarist police...