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From the boxes on the shady side, elegant ladies waved their lace handkerchiefs. In the sol (sunny side), two-peso fans whistled and yelled, tossed their hats into the ring. Conchita had done it again-with as much skill and grace as the three top-flight matadors who had preceded her on the program, the last big corrida of the bullfighting season. While the stands roared "Olé, Olé!", Conchita received a gold cup for the best performance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Wonder Girl Bullfighter | 3/25/1940 | See Source »

...Congratulated Sol Bloom (Dem. N. Y.) on his 70th birthday. Representative Bloom, awakened in the morning by a flood of singing telegrams, objected to the way the telegraph girls sang: "Happy Birthday, Mr. Bloo-oom," made them change it to "Happy Birthday, dear Solly." That sounded better, said Songwriter Bloom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Work Done, Mar. 18, 1940 | 3/18/1940 | See Source »

...Discovered that New York's neanderthalic Representative Sol Bloom is the man who drops shiny new pennies about the Capitol steps for people to find-an inexpensive philanthropy that makes even dourpuss finders beam, according to Mr. Bloom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Work Done, Mar. 11, 1940 | 3/11/1940 | See Source »

Inglorious Infancy. Although it would hurt Sol Bloom to admit it, the Supreme Court was not always the imposing body it is today. At its first meeting, in the 2½-story Royal Exchange, at the foot of Manhattan's Broad Street, Feb. 1, 1790, only Chief Justice John Jay and two Associates turned up. Next day two more of the six Justices arrived from Virginia, making a quorum. In its first two years only one case came before the Supreme Court, was quickly dismissed because of an error in the writ. John Jay found plenty of time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUDICIARY: Birthday | 2/12/1940 | See Source »

...Future Sol Blooms should have no trouble finding the graves of Bill Douglas, Felix Frankfurter, et al. For, unlike those forgotten Justices of the Court's early days, the Olympians over whom Charles Evans Hughes presides have indeed made history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUDICIARY: Birthday | 2/12/1940 | See Source »

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