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...small, thin, white-haired man of 67 last week sat with his wife in the gallery of the House of Representatives and watched himself become the 13th man in U. S. history to be impeached for high crimes and misdemeanors.* He was U. S. District Judge Halsted Lockwood Ritter of Florida. As in the last two impeachments voted by the House (Judge George W. English of Illinois in 1926 and Judge Harold Louderback of California in 1932), the charge, in effect, was skulduggery for private profit in bankruptcy cases...
...sarcophagus effigy from 13th century Spain, the only large wooden figure from this period in the country, is being put on exhibition in the Main Hall of the Fogg Museum today...
...figure is a fine example of late 13th century work, and sheds interesting light on the comparison of Spanish and French treatment of secular subjects. Although displaying most of the medieval tendencies toward identification, a trace of realism is shown in the closed eyes of the effigy, indicating death. The majority of French tomb figures are modelled with open eyes...
Tossing "Friday the 13th" superstitions to the wind, Freshmen will step to the music of Mal Hallett and his orchestra in the early spring dance at the Union tonight. Hoping to pique the idly curious, the dance committee has rumored a surprise in store for the terpsichoreans...
Dearly does the Fascist mind love Fascist anniversaries. After marking time for a fortnight, Italy's armies in the north and south of Ethiopia waited last week till the dawn of the 13th anniversary of the Blackshirt March on Rome, then struck simultaneously...