The last Federal judge appointed by President Jimmy Carter, Stephen Roy Reinhardt died March 29, 2018 from a heart attack; he was 86. His chart is not rectified but set for sunrise on March 21, 1931 at Brooklyn New York where he was born to lawyer Samuel Shapiro, and Silvia Handelsman.  His name was changed after his mother divorced his father and married Gottfried Reinhardt, the son of Austrian director, Max Reinhardt. His parents moved to Los Angeles for Reinhardts career and Stephen graduated from Los Angeles high school and then attended Pomona College, thirty-five miles away in Claremont,  matriculating in 1951 with…

Biograph: Nevada Sen. Patrick Anthony McCarran (Dem 1931-1954) drafted several pieces of legislation in the 1930s and ’40s all of which became the foundation for today’s aviation regulatory structure.  He has an airport in Southern Nevada named him, the McCarran International Airport.  Sen. Harry Reid appealed to the Dept of Transporation to change the name, but after a lengthy review process, McCarran International remained.     “Pat McCarran was one of the most anti-Semitic — some of you might know my wife’s Jewish — one of the most anti-black, one of the most prejudiced people who has ever served in…