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January 1, 1933

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JUSTICE FORD ENDS 26 YEARS ON BENCH; Jurist, Who Will Become a Referee, Finds Courts More Efficient Than Formerly. WOULD WEED OUT CASES Many Are "Most Frivolous," He Finds -- Touched by Gifts From Aides.

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Supreme Court Justice John Ford, who has fought for clean books as he fought against big game in the West and against the traducers of the honor of New York City and of its "sweetness and light," completed yesterday twenty-six years on the Supreme Court bench, and finds himself today, for the first time in thirty-two years, without any public office.

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JOHNSONS OFF AGAIN FOR AFRICAN MOVIES; Explorers Sail for Cape Town With Two Planes and 300 Tons of Equipment.

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Laden with 300 tons of explorers' equipment, with two large amphibian airplanes lashed to her decks and a two-months-old antelope for the ship's mascot, the motorship City of New York of the American South African Line sailed late yesterday from the foot of Forty-first Street, Brooklyn, bound for Cape Town, where the latest Martin Johnson expedition will disembark on Jan. 26.

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Notable Births

James C. Hormel

1933James Hormel, American philanthropist and diplomat (died 2021)[โ€ ]

James Catherwood Hormel was an American philanthropist, LGBT activist, diplomat, and heir to the Hormel meatpacking fortune. He served as the United States Ambassador to Luxembourg from 1999 to 2001, and was the first openly gay man to represent the United States as an ambassador.

Joe Orton

1933Joe Orton, English dramatist (died 1967)[โ€ ]

John Kingsley Orton, known by the pen name of Joe Orton, was an English playwright, author, and diarist.