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PERPIGNAN, France, Feb. 15.-- Searches of Spanish Republican militiamen and their baggage have produced huge quantities of gold and precious stones, which preliminary inquiry by the Montpellier mobile police squad has established as coming from the castle at Figueras.
S on armament bill, House
Urges Cong independence
Magistrate H Capshaw testifies; defends his dismissal of policy cases in which L Rosenkrantz, Schultz aide, and Weinberg were involved; says he doubted police testimony
L David blown from roof, New Brunswick, N J
1939Adolfo Azcuna, Filipino lawyer and judge[†]
Adolfo Sevilla Azcuna is a Filipino jurist who was one of the framers of the 1987 Constitution being a member of the 1986 Constitutional Commission, and served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines from 2002 to 2009. He was appointed to the Court by President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo on October 24, 2002. As of November 2019 he was the Chancellor of the Philippine Judicial Academy (PHILJA), having been appointed to that position by the Supreme Court of the Philippines on June 1, 2009. The Court granted the title of "Chancellor Emeritus" upon Azcuna who served until May 31, 2021. He was succeeded by Arturo Brion who served for 2 years and was replaced by Rosmari Carandang as the fourth Chancellor who took her oath on February 23, 2022.