Mary Ritter Beard has spent much of her life writing U. S. history, notably The Rise of American Civilization in collaboration with her famed husband, Charles Austin Beard. In Washington last week U. S. history in the making touched Author Beard when the Senate sat to try the 13th Federal impeachment in Congress' 147 years. The defendant: Mrs. Beard's brother, Federal District Judge Halsted L. Ritter of Florida.
"Hear ye! Hear ye! Hear ye!" cried the Senate's portly Sergeant at Arms Chesley W. Jurney. "All persons are commanded to keep silence, on pain...
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