Word: attorney
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President Hoover appointed Lawrence M. Judd, rancher and county supervisor of Honolulu, to be Governor of Hawaii, succeeding Wallace Rider Farrington. eight-year incumbent. Another appointment: William D. L. Starbuck, New York mechanical engineer, patent attorney, Democrat, to the Federal Radio Commission. As President Coolidge had unsuccessfully done before him, President Hoover sent to the Senate for confirmation the name of Irvine Luther Lenroot, onetime (1918-27) Senator from Wisconsin, to be Judge on the U. S. Court of Customs & Patents Appeals...
...underlay the Rumor. Between President Hoover and Justice Stone exists a thoroughgoing friendship. Justice Stone was in the Hoover family circle the night its head was nominated at Kansas City. He fished with the President-Elect Hoover off Florida, and there suggested the name of William DeWitt Mitchell for Attorney-General. He dropped in for a friendly morning chat the day Mr. Hoover became President. He was among the first asked to join the medicine-ball exercise at 7 a. m. back of the White House...
...Stone first became a professor there, then went into the law firm of Satterlee, Canfield & Stone, returning to Columbia in 1910 to serve as the Law School's dean. In 1924 President Coolidge, who never forgot a good man, called him to Washington, made him Attorney-General, asked him to ventilate thoroughly the Department of Justice after Harry Micajah Daugherty. Within a year President Coolidge advanced him to the Supreme Court to succeed Justice Joseph McKenna, resigned...
...decide whether she had committed a criminal obscenity by sending through the mails a 24-page pamphlet she had written, entitled The Sex Side of Life. Beside Mrs. Dennett sat her 28-year-old son Carleton (with his wife) and her younger son Devon, aged 24. Near her sat Attorney Morris L. Ernst and Dr. R. L. Dickinson of the N. Y. Academy of Medicine, her supporters. At the other end of the table sat Assistant U. S, Attorney James E. Wilkinson, with John S. Sumner of the New York Society for Suppression of Vice and Canon William Sheafe Chase...
Several manuscripts of Whittier, and an interesting letter of Whitman's are suitable for first consideration. With what seems to be a curious naivety, Whitman concludes his letter from the Attorney-General's office to Mr. Freiligrath with the following words, "I shall be well pleased indeed to hear from you. My address is Walt Whitman, Washington, D. C., U. S. America...