Word: attorney
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...actual diplomats in actual diplomatic automobiles may transport liquor. 4) Seven men arrested in Manhattan on March 4 waited last week to find out the hour and minute of Calvin Coolidge's signing the Jones Act-hoping it was signed at least one minute after their arrests-but Attorney-General Mitchell announced that anyone caught that day would be tried under the Jones Act. 5) The bootleggers of Washington, D.C., frightened or greedy, increased the price of alcohol from...
...Attorney General Sargent, having served four years in the Cabinet of Calvin Coolidge, served one day and a fraction in the Cabinet of Herbert Hoover?until William DeWitt Mitchell was confirmed and sworn in. It was under Herbert Hoover that Mr. Sargent performed his last official act. That act was the signing of a parole releasing Col. Thomas Woodnutt Miller, onetime (1921-25) Alien Property Custodian, from Atlanta Penitentiary...
...Miller, tried with onetime (1921-24) Attorney General Daugherty for defrauding the Government, was convicted and sentenced to 18 months imprisonment and a fine of $5,000. On Daugherty, one juror disagreed and he was discharged. Miller began to serve his term last April. He behaved himself well in jail and was to have been discharged next July. Last December he was recommended for parole. In spite of the custom of releasing convicts at Christmas time. Attorney General Sargent did not see fit to sign the parole then. But he did not forget. He bided his time, until his last...
...discinction in his field of special endeavor as to reflect glory upon the Catholic faith." Actress Margaret Anglin received the medal for 1927; Edward N. Hurley for 1926. Other Laetare medallists: Patrick V. Hickey, founder of Catholic Review (1888); Theatrical Manager Augustin Daly (1894); Orator William Bourke Cockran (1901); Attorney-General Charles J. Bonaparte (1903); Diplomat Maurice Francis Egan (1910); Essayist Agnes Repplier (1911); Chief Justice Edward Douglas White (1914); Admiral William Shepherd Benson...
Despite Mr. Young's announcement, however, prophets in political circles refuse to omit his name from the list of candidates for the assistant attorney generalship, for he has long been recognized as one of the leading supporters of President Hoover as well as one of the nation's leading lawyers. After being graduated from Harvard College in 1907 and from the Law School in 1911, he was admitted to the bar and has been held one of the leading members. He was a member of the Board of Overseers of the University from 1922 to 1928, and has given almost...