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These considerations guided Franklin Roosevelt's search for a successor to Louis Dembitz Brandeis, who retired from the Supreme Court in February. Demands that a Westerner be named this time restricted the choice. Suddenly it was remembered that William Orville Douglas, 40, chairman of SEC, was born in Minne sota, raised and schooled in Yakima and Walla Walla, Wash. A trial balloon for the Douglas appointment was released just before the President went war-gaming with the fleet (TIME, Feb. 27). This week, the President named Mr. Douglas to be the youngest Associate Justice since Joseph Story...
...July morning in 1885, feverish little Joseph Meister was dragged by his frantic mother through the streets of Paris in search of an unknown scientist who, according to rumors, could prevent rabies. For nine-year-old Joseph had been bitten in 14 places by a huge, mad dog and in a desperate attempt to cheat death, his mother had fled from their home town in Alsace to Paris. Early in the afternoon Mme Meister met a young physician in a hospital. "You mean Pasteur," he said. "I'll take you there...
...shall be deprived of life . . . without due process of law." So DINING HALLS are unconstitutional. If "unreasonable" search and seizure" is impossible, then it is even unconstitutional to BORROW A NECKTIE...
Many a soldier on arrival in France "neglected" either to declare the jewels or to turn them in at the Consulate. French customs officers caught wind of the "smuggling," began a search. Seventy-six Loyalist officers and men were arrested, fined 18,000,000 francs and sentenced to jail terms ranging from one month to two years for evading customs laws. By last weekend the French Government was richer by some $397,000 worth of stones. It intended to apply the money thus raised to feeding the 380,000 Loyalist refugees it harbored. Last week 70,000 of the latter...
Last week, with Hungary under martial law and the Premier's racial bills facing probable defeat, Dr. Imredy was forced to admit that he had made an embarrassing and belated discovery. A deeper search into genealogical records had uncovered the unfortunate fact that his maternal great-grandfather had been born a Jew and that he himself was thus one-eighth Jewish. After some necessary promptings by old Nicholas Horthy, Regent of Hungary, Dr. Imredy resigned in a mood of self-immolation. Said he: "I held, and still hold, that legislation for the regulation of Jewish participation in the economic...