Word: recentes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...field, Professor Frankfurter seems clearly in the lead, and the recent poll of the American Bar showing him to be the overwhelming choice of the lawyers of the country, certainly did not hurt his chances. The strongest thing that might keep Mr. Frankfurter from the Supreme Court, is his own desire to stay in his present position. He has long felt that the weakest part of fur Government was our great lack of able public servants, and in recent years he has single-handed filled some of the most important positions in Washington with brilliant men whom he feels...
...were appointed to the Supreme Court, it would be extremely difficult for him to continue this work. In his recent speech at the unveiling of the portrait of Justice Louis D. Brandeis, he referred to the "monastic life of a Supreme Court Justice," and his friends entertained but little doubt of what he was referring...
...from suppression and himself from duels and beatings-up. This year he and Gassier had the cartoonist's equivalent of a retrospective show in the form of a book, Histoire de France 1918-1938, reviving their more famous drawings of the past 20 years, including Sennep's recent (1936) Embarcation for Spain...
...recent years Dr. The Svedberg, a Swedish Nobelman, has done much research on giant protein molecules, determining their molecular weights after separating them in powerful centrifuges (whirling machines) of his own devising...
Sixty Glorious Years (Imperator-RKO Radio) should be an enlightening experience for U. S. cinemaddicts whose notions about 19th-Century history may have been slightly confused by recent Hollywood versions. Suez, for example, portrayed Ferdinand de Lesseps, who actually had two wives and ten children, as a lovesick young bachelor, and explained England's participation in his canal-building as the result of a General Election which never occurred. In Sixty Glorious Years, a dinner-table chat between Disraeli and Queen Victoria shows how the matter was actually handled. This reverence for the real is characteristic of a picture...