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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cabinet is a body totally unknown to the Constitution, hence members do not hold office "under the United States." Says Edward S. Corwin, famed constitutional lawyer, and McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence at Princeton University: "Article I, paragraph 6 is no obstacle to the President's constituting his Cabinet of chairmen of Congressional Committees. Members of present Cabinet are officers only as heads of departments. A Cabinet of Committee heads would not be officers, only advisers...
...deposits of bauxite, the commercial ore from which aluminum is extracted. These deposits are in Alabama, Tennessee, Georgia, Arkansas. The Aluminum Co. also controls the great bauxite deposits of British and Dutch Guiana, and buys up much of the French red bauxite. Manufacturer Haskell located other deposits, until then unknown to the Aluminum...
...distinguished legal reputation but as the author of O Canada, the Canadian national song. Strictly speaking, Jurist Weir did not "write" O Canada but paraphrased and extensively altered into English an earlier version in French by Judge Routhier. The present version, chanted by Canadians on public occasions, is almost unknown...
Sued for Divorce. Maude Parker Child, 30, by Richard Washburn Child, 45, onetime (1919) editor of Collier's and ontime (1921-24) U. S. ambassador to Italy; at Stroudsburg, Pa. Cause unknown...
...expense or effort than black and white effects require. An ordinary camera was used and an ordinary monochromatic film, treated specially but simply. No "screen" or "color filter"* was needed on camera or projector. Fringes of color-bane of films made with filters by superimposing sets of negatives-were unknown. The only features of the invention described by correspondents were: 1) that the film had to be run twice as fast as a black and white film (i.e. 32 instead of 16 exposures per second); 2) that the negative film, after exposure, was stained alternately red and yellow. Witnesses reported...