Michael Keith Billington is a British author and arts critic. He writes for The Guardian, and was the paper's chief drama critic from 1971 to 2019. Billington is "Britain's longest-serving theatre critic" and the author of biographical and critical studies relating to British theatre and the arts. He is the authorised biographer of the playwright Harold Pinter (1930–2008).

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1939Pierce Butler, American lawyer and jurist (born 1866)^[†]

Pierce Butler was an American jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1923 until his death in 1939. He is notable for being the first Supreme Court justice from Minnesota, and for being a Democrat appointed by a Republican president. He was a staunch conservative and was regarded as a part of the Four Horsemen, the conservative bloc that dominated the Supreme Court during the 1930s. A devout Catholic, he was also the sole dissenter in the case Buck v. Bell, though he did not write an opinion.

Headlines from November 16, 1939

WAR ALTERS PLANS FOR OUR CRUISERS; Nazis' 'Pocket' Battleships To Cause Revision on the Columbia, Cleveland

BUILDING FOR PEACE IS URGED BY LAMONT; U. S. Should Keep Out of War but Sell to France and Britain, Banker Says Defense Plea Applauded BUILDING FOR PEACE URGED BY LAMONT Birth of Hitlerism U. S. of Europe Foreseen Other Speakers in Agreement

WATERWAYS CHIEF OUSTED BY HOPKINS IN OFFICIAL CLASH; General Ashburn Lays Action to Policy Row--'Rejuvenation,' Says DepartmentMADE DEFICIT A PROFITHe Turned $1,000,000 YearlyLoss Into an Annual Profitof $1,000,000 A "Clash of Personalities"

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