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Sirica returned to Washington later the same year and hung out around the courtrooms, waiting for judges to ask him to take on indigent defendants without pay, just for the experience. In the late 1920s he sat through some of the trials related to the Teapot Dome scandals, fascinated by the courtroom skills of such lawyers as Frank J. Hogan and William E. Leahy: "Perhaps the greatest trial lawyers of this century." He never imagined, of course, that he would one day preside over proceedings in an even worse scandal...
...1920s he was widely syndicated, a national institution more or less on a par with his friends Ring Lardner, Will Rogers and Charlie Chaplin. His grand subjects were the quirks of everyday life, things like the difficulty of navigating through revolving doors.or reading a medical thermometer. But Rube Goldberg's zany imagination and zippy drawing style really blossomed with the Inventions of Professor Lucifer Gorgonzola Butts-those incredible falling domino devices that poke fun at the complex concatenations of modern technology by deploying sleepy dogs, melting ice, steam whistles and levers to light a cigar in an open...
...horn on his electric golf cart, passed the state safety inspection and now drives the vehicle to his local rapid-transit station every day. When Massachusetts' Berkshire Community College lowered class room temperatures to 63°, Jurgen A. Thomas began lecturing his drama class in a very collegiate (1920s) raccoon coat. And Paul Indianer, an insurance executive in Miami, has replaced his telephone-equipped Chrysler Imperial with a bicycle. "It's great exercise, and I'm amused at the stares I get," he says. The stares are not for Indianer but for his portable telephone, now installed...
...Engineer Otto Lilienthal began applying their knowledge of birds to efforts to get man off the ground. After World War I, the Versailles Treaty denied military aircraft to the vanquished and the Germans trained some 50,000 glider pilots. Americans began picking up the gliding habit in the late 1920s; in 1939 three brothers, Ernest, Paul and William Schweizer, set up the Schweizer Aircraft Corp. in Elmira, N.Y., which is still the principal American manufacturer...
...seem that the new world order was complete. Despite incursions into such countries as Haiti, Nicaragua, and, almost, into Mexico, a series of international conferences in the 1920s appeared to have kept even truly prospective threats such as Japan in line. The Depression drastically intensified governments' awareness of the economic imperatives of foreign policy, producing the struggle which led to World War II and eventually to the current structure of international capitalism...