Word: attorney
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Last week a farewell dinner party was given in the White House. Guest of honor: Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt. Occasion: her retirement as Assistant Attorney General in charge of prohibition...
Albert Francis Judd was a son of Dr. Judd. Following his father's example, he served King Lunalilo (1873-1874) as Attorney-General, was placed on the Supreme Court bench in 1874, was its Chief Justice from 1886 through a revolutionary period when the court acted as a balance wheel to preserve the Hawaiian Government from complete destruction...
...Nominated by acclamation Prof. William Moseley Brown for Governor and Capt. C. C. Berkeley for Attorney-General. It left the nomination for Lieutenant-Governor open, in hopes the state Republicans would choose that candidate, thus permitting the two groups to coalesce against the regular Democrats. Nominee Brown, a 35-year-old professor of psychology at Washington & Lee University, was described as the state's "most cantankerous and catamountish campaigner," but when led to the platform he turned out to be a mild-mannered polite gentle man, still trailing a classroom atmosphere after him as he pleaded against bitterness, called...
Last fortnight Attorney Will H. Latta, of Indianapolis, was killed when a train struck his automobile. Last week Attorney Latta's will left public bequests of more than $160,000,000. Yet no rich man was Attorney Latta. His total estate came only to some...
Member Alfred S. Austrian, able attorney, was not-so-good golfer. He could barely "break" (score less than) 100. He offered Club Professional George A. Neill $10,000 if he could teach him to break 80. Scot Neill set to work on Member Austrian. Weeks passed. Came at last a day when the Austrian score added up to only 78, then came a 79, 77. Honest, grateful, member Austrian paid the promised $10,000. Scot Neill then asked him why he had been so anxious to break 80. The Austrian reply...