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Thus did courtly Senator Henry Fountain Ashurst of Arizona refer to the hearings of his Senate Judiciary Committee on the President's Supreme Court Plan. Last week the Committee rounded out its fourth week of hearings, listening to an assortment of the Plan's opponents, including Henry M. Bates, dean of the University of Michigan (who some 30 years ago taught law to both Henry Ashurst and Burton Wheeler), Columnist Dorothy Thompson, Professor Edwin Borchard of Yale Law School, John T. Flynn, financial writer, Lawyer William B. McDowell of Royal Oak, Mich., Erwin N. Griswold, professor...
...religion of my ancestors; first, as a matter of convenience and secondly, I want nothing that may in the slightest degree cause any mental anguish, pain or suffering to any members of my family. . . . When the book will be published, there is no saying how many newspapers might refer to me and openly designate me as a Jew when as a matter of fact I am a Catholic...
First white man on record to enter what is now Nevada was Francisco Tomas Hermenegildo Garces, priest of the Order of St. Francis. Seeking a route to upper California from Sonora, Mexico, he crossed what is now the State's southwestern corner in 1775. Let Reader Edwards refer to the Encyclopaedia Britannica, Dictionary of American Biography, C. A. Engelhardt's The Missions and Missionaries of California...
...members of the Student Council these men would be representatives of the entire student body, not merely of a special section of it, as the present Committee members are. Again, as members of the Student Council the two new committeemen would be able to refer directly to their co-workers general athletic viewpoints and questions which may be expected to be brought first to the attention of the Student Council by undergraduates...
...German daily papers most death notices still refer to God, but last week a fast-gaining formula was to advertise that the German deceased "died in the faith of Adolf Hitler." The Cologne Court of Appeals upheld last week the decision of the lower court which recently jail-sentenced a Cologne smart aleck who replied to a greeting of "Heil Hitler!" by saying "Heil London!" According to the Court of Appeals, this is a "gross misdemeanor" like spitting on the Cross...