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NYC right-wing leaders plan broader scope for regional set-up; body to rival Greater NY CIO Council
Govt challenged for 1st time from within as Irgun tries to land arms in violation of truce
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Treas repts record surplus of $7,997,771,000
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1948Clarence Thomas, American lawyer and jurist, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States[†]
Clarence Thomas is an American lawyer and jurist who has served since 1991 as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. President George H. W. Bush nominated him to succeed Thurgood Marshall. After Marshall, Thomas is the second African American to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court and has been its longest-serving member since Anthony Kennedy's retirement in 2018. He has also been the Court's oldest member since Stephen Breyer retired in 2022.