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Supreme Court convention places the most recent appointee to the bench at the chair farthest to the left of the Chief Justice, who sits in the middle. Since 1916, Justice Brandeis' old bronze reading lamp has gradually moved closer to the centre. Now the oldest Justice on the Court...
Last week he followed upward another municipal chief who rode to a bigger job on that same flood, former City Manager Clarence Dykstra of Cincinnati, now president of the University of Wisconsin. For Neville Miller, whose term as mayor expires this month, was named assistant to Harold Willis Dodds, president...
Mogul emperors four centuries ago in India hung wetted grass mats over the doors and windows on the windward side of their palaces. A slight breeze might then cool their throne rooms as much as 20°. In 1901, somewhat the same idea occurred to a young Buffalo engineer named...
Massachusetts' Governor Charles Francis Hurley last July refused to extradite an escaped Georgia chain-gang convict who had been caught running a Boston lottery. He added insult to injury by giving as his reason that Georgia's prison system was inhumane. Georgia's Governor Eureth Dickinson Rivers...
Governor Rivers was gleeful. He granted the parole on condition that Barber Willis spend the next nine months in Massachusetts. Said he: "Governor Hurley seems to be in need of extra lottery operators. I am accommodating both Governor Hurley and this prisoner. . . ."