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A Supreme Mix-Up!

On the evening of October 20, 1914, Chief Justice Edward D. White and the Associate Justices left an American Bar Association meeting and walked a block down the street to the Pan-American Union Building in Washington, D.C., where they were to preside over the Bar Association’s opening reception. However, when the Justices arrived at the entrance, they found its gate was closed and locked. Chief Justice White reached through the gate and banged on the glass door with his cane and shouted, “Open up!” The Washington Evening Star reported the next day, “After assuring the attendant who came that he was really the Chief Justice of the United States and that his companions were the associate justices, admittance was obtained.”