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Dates: during 1930-1939
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During World War I someone offered the British Government a chemical which, he said, would freeze clouds solid. Guns could then be mounted on the clouds, to ward off airplane attacks...
Such ear-slitting, said Eliot and Eleanor Clark last week, is no more painful than piercing for old-fashioned earrings. The rabbits are placid and happy, wear warm grey flannel pajamas, take vacations in Europe, occasionally feast on ice cream and cake...
Next day Judge Lindley slapped a $5,000 fine on each of the four corporations, ordered them to pay the cost of prosecution, estimated at $500,000 to $1,000,000. He did so in spite of defense motions to throw out the peculiar verdict. Said he wryly...
...observed in a recent opinion of the Supreme Court that one of the recent appointees of that court has expressly said that the court has been reconstructed and the fair implication, as I read it, is that precedents may be of little avail, and their lack no bar. I must confess that at the end of 17 years on the bench I find less certainty in the law today than at any time. . . . The question of law is one which it seems to me that a trial judge in the present conditions and the present environment . . . should not condemn...
...class of 33, he considered himself a military genius. At West Point too began his bitter feud with Joseph E. Johnston. Cause: a tavern keeper's daughter. Elected to the Presidency by accident (delegates preferred Toombs), he was bitterly assailed by his own colleagues. ("That scoundrel Jeff Davis," said Toombs.) A bad guesser, he made his worst guess when he tried to force English recognition by withholding cotton shipments. That notion cost the Confederacy a billion dollars, wrecked its finances...