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...plight may have united Britons more than doctrinaire and class-conscious U. S. citizens can believe possible; but the U. S. is taking no chance of being caught unawares if dissatisfaction develops in British labor. Before the Winant appointment was a week old it was disclosed that Benjamin Cohen, of the defunct New Deal law-writing team of Corcoran & Cohen, would accompany him to London as counselor-of-embassy...
...Last week, five days after the new Court unanimously overruled Hammer v. Dagenhart, old (81) ex-Justice Van Devanter died of a heart attack at Washington. On the bench in his seat sat Justice Hugo La Fayette Black, first Roosevelt appointee to the Court. With Tommy Corcoran and Benjamin V. Cohen (see p. 15), Black had devised the wage-hour law, had inserted in it the child-labor provisions as a deliberate challenge to Hammer v. Dagenhart. Now Hugo Black participated triumphantly in certifying his law's constitutionality...
...York summer resort Mr. Max Heitner, Bronx real-estate agent, once met an agreeable, balding fellow named Benjamin Tannenbaum, who said he was an accountant. They became friends. Police knew Ben as Benny the Boss, gangster aide of Louis Lepke and Jacob Gurrah, convicted dope and fur racketeers. One night last week, while Benny the Boss was sitting up with the Heitner baby and the parents were out, the mob found Benny, left him dead with two bullets in his chest. The baby slept through...
...Sophomores, Benjamin C. Bradlee, George R. Clay, Peter Dunham, Justin J. Haley, F. Barton Harvey, and H. W. Ford King conceived the idea of the Cotillion and would have had to bear the cost of the affair if it had not been financially productive...
...dead as its fringed surreys, gas lamps and stereopticons; an old man whose many hates included tobacco and Jews (tobacco smoke sent him into tantrums; he alone refused to sign a farewell testimonial from the Court to Justice Louis Dembitz Brandeis; when Hoover appointed Benjamin Cardozo he reputedly roared: "What! Another Jew?" and ostentatiously rattled a newspaper while Cardozo was being sworn...