Word: brownings
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Appointed (within four hours). Charles Evans Hughes, born in Glens Falls, N. Y. (1862), Colgate and Brown-educated (1881), lawyer, counsel for New York insurance investigation (1905-06), Governor of New York (1907-10), Associate Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court (1910-16), defeated Republican nominee for President (1916), Secretary of State (1921-25), member of the permanent Court of International Justice (1926), chairman of the U. S. delegation to the sixth Pan-American Conference at Havana (1928), president of the American Bar Association (1924-25), a prime campaigner for Herbert Hoover (1928). His judicial tendency: toward a conservatism...
Everybody learned except John who toddled after balls. In the summertime when famed tennis players came to play at tournaments in the clubs around Boston, the John Gorham Palfreys took their swarm of brown-haired, blue-eyed, wiry, sunburned children to the matches. On their own court they practiced what they had seen. In 1926, Elizabeth won the indoor doubles with Marjorie Morrill. Mrs. George Wightman, a resident of Brookline, holder of 31 national titles, came over in the afternoons to give them lessons. The Palfreys had learned by themselves those parts of the game that players not taught...
...less bewildered was Secretary of State Clarence Brown, who had been ill in a hospital when the bill was passed. Apologetically said he: "I simply missed the play and fumbled the ball." He went at once to Attorney General Gilbert Beltman, for in Secretary of State Brown's opinion, Section 199 violates the bill of rights "and provides for confiscation of property without due process...
LINCOLN-Emil Ludwig-Little, Brown...
Running high jump-Tie between Brown' (A) and Withington (A), 5 ft. 6 in.; third, J. E. Fitch...