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...Chief Justice (William Howard Taft) had returned to Washington early, after a frolicsome 71st birthday (with eleven grandchildren) at his summer lodge at Murray Bay, Quebec. Prior to convening his eight Supreme colleagues, he held a three-day conference with the senior judges of the U. S. Circuit Court. He informed President Coolidge that five additional Federal judges should be benched in Manhattan and Brooklyn to cope with the mounting arrears of Prohibition and tax cases...
...U.S.S. Lexington, with Captain (now Admiral) Marshall in command, broke the world's record for 24-hr, runs, steaming 774 nautical miles in one day of a three-day run to Hawaii (TIME, June...
...company also said: "No porter works 400 hours per month. Some work only 100 hours and the average is less than 300 hours. Porters have sleep periods while on long runs and long rest periods at the end of runs. For instance: three-day run to Pacific Coast (nightly sleep en route), then 24 or 28 hours off on the Coast. Three days back to Chicago and then a rest period of five and six days, with...
...come something more thrilling even than the bucking bronchos of the Wild West films, at which they had been wont to wail untiringly. The triumph of the trimotored plane, the mapping of Pacific air routes-these meant nothing to the 7,000 natives of a remote island. Their three-day marvel was leaving them. They wept...
...same time officers for the Associated Harvard Clubs for the coming year were named. Harry N. Williams '85, of Boston, has been elected president. Nathan Percales Jr. '04, of Milwaukee. Mind., secretary, and Mackey wells '08, also of Milwaukee, treasurer. About 700 graduates are in attendance at the three-day meeting...