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Justice McKenna usually armed himself on the bench with a magnificent, reticent dignity, but in times of argument he rose like an angry emperor slashing controversy with vehement logic, scorching opponents with Voltairian sarcasm. Off the bench he was as genial as an Irish sergeant...
...Hear ye, hear ye . . ." droned Sergeant-at-Arms David S. Barry as he proclaimed that the Senate was sitting as a court "for the trial of articles of impeachment exhibited by the House of Representatives" against George Washington English, U. S. Judge for the Eastern District of Illinois. Suddenly, under the clock, swinging doors swung; the doorkeeper announced the Managers (appointed by the House of Representatives to conduct the prosecution at the bar of the Senate). Four of the eight strode in, headed by Representative Michener of Michigan. He said, as everyone knew he would, that Judge English had handed...
Their sportsmanship was commended by the Princetonian. Lieutenant H. P. Grace, Sergeant T. S. Hardy and Officers Chester Barron, John Foley, T. J. Mundy, and R. E. Reimen were mentioned in the letter as recipients of the cigars, but the four unnamed guardians will also receive their due. All the victims of the football aftermath have attended Harvard games as Stadium retainers for a number of seasons. Their downfall last Saturday was the first reverse they have received...
...situation of Marie A. Easby-Smith (TIME, Nov. 1), and parallel to that of La Vestale, in the opera of that name, Anna Le Brun, 46, of New Bedford, Mass., has just been relieved by Pope Pius XI of her vows as Sister of Charity, in order to marry Sergeant Frank Levesque, 48, U. S. A. The two were childhood friends, and recently met again, after 25 years, at the bedside of a mutual friend...
...pink rosebud, sent by President Coolidge by special messenger, was pinned to the coat of Detective Sergeant Arthur B. Scrivener as he was lowered into his grave at Winchester, Va. Sergeant Scrivener was shot by an unknown assassin in Washington a fortnight ago, on the day before he was to have been married...