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...throat ailment; in La Junta, Colo. Died. James Harvey Robinson, 72, noted historian and editor, of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Professor of European History at Columbia University for 27 years, he resigned in 1919 to help organize the New School for Social Research. Died. Mary Cora Urquhart Brown Potter, 76, who jolted Victorian morals by deserting society to become the stage sensation of two continents; of pneumonia; near Cannes. In 1912 she retired to the Isle of Guernsey, studied Yogi philosophy, wrote comforting letters to her much-troubled daughter, Anne Urquhart Potter ("Fifi") Stillman McCormick. Died. David Sheldon Barry...
Born. To Fred Astaire, 36, cinema's No. 1 hoofer; and Phyllis Livingston Baker Potter Astaire, 27; a son, their first child; in Hollywood. Weight: 6½ lb. Name: Fred...
...last week's meeting of sanitarians Dr. Alfred Potter, Brooklyn syphilologist, estimated 10,000,000 U. S. cases of syphilis, active and arrested. Cried he: "In the area of the U. S. in which syphilis has been reportable since 1920 there have been reported 35,000 more cases of syphilis than of scarlet fever, 79,000 more cases than all forms of tuberculosis, 500,000 more cases than of diphtheria and five times as many cases as typhoid fever...
...Supreme Court, a new desk and a group of filing cases appeared in the larger of the two rooms used by newshawks in the basement of the new Court building across the plaza from the Capitol. With the furniture, in moved a Court Clerk named Nelson A. Potter. Promptly the ungrateful Press announced even the Supreme Court now had a press agent. Actually Clerk Potter had been appointed to put an end to old complaints of the Press that it was unduly difficult to see or obtain copies of official Court documents. His job, to make available briefs, decisions...
Whether Clerk Potter's new job was but a sign of the times or whether the nine Justices realized that with the New Year there would be a real need for Mr. Potter's services, was not revealed. But the day when the Court met for the first time in 1936 was a busy one for Mr. Potter and the press room. That afternoon in the courtroom upstairs after Mr. Justice Cardozo had read a minor decision...