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William Agnew Johnston, 86. Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Kansas, served the 365th day of his 50th year on one bench, thereby setting a record which Kansans promptly acclaimed as unique among U. S. judges. Born in Oxford, Ont. and educated only in country grade schools, Kansas' "Grand Old Man" was first appointed to the State's Supreme Court in 1884, re-elected every six years. In 1903 he became Chief Justice. More loyal are Kansans to Oldster Johnston than to any other individual or ideal except Prohibition. Said he last week: "I have hoped that I might...
...very day Congas sold down to $22.37½ per share, the great New York City utility was formally celebrating its 50th anniversary. The exercises were far from gay. President George Bruce Cortelyou, who at one time or another served Roosevelt I as Secretary of Commerce & Labor, Secretary of the Treasury and Postmaster General, was moved to wonder whether, for Consolidated Gas, the first 50 years were really the hardest...
Proud would Samuel Brearley have been if he could have returned to Earth last week for a banquet at Manhattan's Hotel Astor. Proud were the 1,000 handsome, well-dressed people who gathered there to celebrate the 50th birthday of the famed Manhattan girls' school which he started in a small brownstone house on East 45th Street. They were proud that Brearley had attracted the daughters of Cleveland H. Dodge, Herbert L. Satterlee, Oswald Garrison Villard, Henry Fairfield Osborn, Felix M. Warburg, Owen D. Young. They were proud that Brearley had schooled such distinguished personages as Dean...
...54th season Koussevitzky had chosen a rich, compact passacaglia which he had written himself. Bostonians had been curious. Koussevitzky, they knew, was the world's greatest bull-fiddler. He could write sympathetically for the big bass, as Kreisler has written for the violin. For the Symphony's 50th anniversary celebration he contributed an overture. But Boston was apathetic to a composer who at that time preferred to remain anonymous. When last week's audience approved the passacaglia, prouder than Victor the valet was a plump motherly woman who by choice sits in the balcony. She had known...
Victor M. Harding 3L, introduced the speakers, including the chairman of the Law Review, which will celebrate its 50th anniversary in 1936; William Piel, Jr. 3L., head of the Legal Aid Bureau; and the chairman of the Board of Student Advisers, who supervise the law clubs. The program was sponsored by the Law School Committee of Phillips Brooks House...