Word: stone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Stockholder George P. Davis who sued Edison Electric Illuminating Co. of Boston to restrain it from paying old age pension taxes on its payrolls. This time Justice Cardozo carried seven members of the court with him in approving the law, leaving Justices Butler and McReynolds to dissent. Finally Justice Stone read a decision upholding (5 to 4) Alabama's unemployment insurance law passed to conform to the Federal law. The Court having thus made a clean sweep of legal attacks on Social Security, Justice Cardozo went home to celebrate the day, his 67th birthday...
...Chief Justice Hughes and Justice Brandeis allowed it to be announced that they had no present intention of retiring. A letter written by Justice McReynolds fortnight ago to a questioner saying, "You may disregard all rumors of my resignation," was also published. Since Justices Roberts, Stone and Cardozo are not yet 70, are therefore ineligible to retire with pay, the only other likely early retirers are Conservatives Sutherland and Butler...
...year in addition to his specialty. For the faculty, this is highly desirable, as it forces each professor to keep the elements of his science at his finger tips. For students interested in mathematics as an instrument and not as an end, the digressions of such specialists as Professor Stone, seem superfluous and distracting. What these men desire primarily is to be presented with the origins and uses of the mathematical forms they will want to put into practical uses...
...find an appreciative buyer for his castle and complete threemile, narrow-gauge railroad at Hadlyme. Wrote he: "I would consider it more than unfortunate for me should I find myself doomed after death to a continued consciousness of the behavior of mankind on this planet-to discover that the stone walls and towers and fireplaces of my home, founded at every point on the solid rock of Connecticut; that my railway line with its bridges, trestles, tunnels through solid rock . . . that my locomotives and cars, constructed on the safest and most efficient mechanical principles . . . should reveal themselves...
Brose was a dangerous character, a fighting fool. With the "Bloody First" he got plenty of danger and many a fight: Second Manassas, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, the Wilderness, Spotsylvania, Cold Harbor, Petersburg. At Gettysburg Brose was in the charge that reached the highwater mark of the Confederacy inside the stone wall on Cemetery Ridge, led a handful of survivors safely back. Long before Appomattox he knew there was no hope left, but like many a butternut veteran was willing to go on. Mildred could hardly recognize as her fire-eating lover the tattered scarecrow that came limping into smoke-blackened...