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Famed though Mr. Justice Holmes is for the liberalism of his judicial thought, for his vigorous dissents from majority opinions, for his literary grace and phrasemaking, it is likely that he will be remembered longest as a great abstract thinker, a philosopher who practiced his profession under the guise of the law. Years ago he gave Harvard students his high intellectual creed in these words...
...total expenditure of about $7,500,000 he proposed to build three bridges, most important one to span the straits between Zealand and Falster. About two miles long, it would be the longest bridge in Europe.† The State would be reimbursed by an extra gasoline tax of one ore a liter (roughly, 1/5? a quart...
Spain's Constitution is one of the longest ever adopted by a modern nation. It contains 19 chapters and over 125 articles. Serviceably bound in red, yellow & purple covers, the 400,000 volumes hurtled down last week somewhat dangerously, but there were no serious casualties. Into the Royal Palace, his official residence for the time being, went Senor Alcala Zamora, preceded by four mace-bearers. In Fontainebleau, ex-King Alfonso XIII spent the day playing golf, turned in a poor card...
...flames. So there have been in the near counties of Clinch and Lanier 10,000 sq. mi. burned over, according to the report sent in to our local paper Valdosta Times last week. I have been an interested reader of TIME several months, so decided to report this longest dry time which the oldest or middle-aged inhabitants can remember experiencing in this locality. The river Withlacooche is so near dry, hogs walk in centre of river bed just knee deep. The water is generally 15 ft. or 20 ft. deep when of normal depth. TIME is very wonderful...
...exports to Soviet Russia and of "payments in kind" to the Reparations' creditors of Germany. The latter, of course, are a drain on Germany, not a gain. The exports to Russia are a story in themselves (see p. 20). Unlike other German exports they were sold on the longest of long export credits. To furnish these credits, German banks and the Reichsbank in particular have been drawing on available credit resources to the limit. Last week the Reichsbank's resources of gold foreign exchange further declined...