Word: school
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Harvard Law School's Story Professor of Law, T. Reed Powell, doubtless feels honored by your attributing to Mr. Justice Holmes Mr. Powell's sly jest as to Mr. Justice Butler's feelings about the procreation of imbeciles in perpetuity [TIME, Nov. 27]. Romantic legends certainly have gathered round Holmes's name; but even a casual reading of his opinion in Buck v. Bell and of Mr. Powell's digest thereof in his Police Power essays, published-as I recall-in the Virginia Law Review, will uncover the source of this...
Northwestern University Medical School...
...farm, Mr. Renshaw was about to lose his land by foreclosure. He got cancer of the face. All his horses died. He broke his arm. His car went to pot. He had to sell his hogs for practically nothing. When the subject of patriotism came up at school, his son James, 14, said the hell with the U. S. and The Star-Spangled Banner. The loan company foreclosed, and the Renshaws had to pay rent to keep on living on their own farm. Mrs. Renshaw broke her collarbone, and Doris, 12, and Iris, 11, had to do all the housework...
...least of all himself, need have been surprised that Maury was in trouble. Politics is a tough business, and Bexar County is no Sunday school. When Maury Maverick got licked for re-election to Congress, he started to come back by getting himself elected Mayor of San Antonio. In his campaign he promised a general clean-up of the city. When he was elected, he started to make good his promise. Result: obvious to any freshman in political chemistry...
...Frack, a pair of Swiss comics. Frick & Frack have been a scream ever since they first skated together in their native Basle three years ago. Frick, whose real name is Werner Groebli, was a student at the University of Zurich. Frack, born Hansruedi Mauch, was studying at a business school. One holiday afternoon they set to burlesquing some of their pompous neighbors who acted as though they owned the rink. Onlookers tittered merrily...