Word: attorney
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bodily injury to the person of Herbert Hoover and by threats and intimidation to prevent him from taking office as President of the U. S." Three days later they were arraigned, placed under $10,000 bail, which they could not raise. Then the prosecutor, Assistant U. S. Attorney Louis S. Joel, delayed the hearing while he looked for "missing" witnesses. The trio remained in jail while Mr. Hoover was received in Miami, while he proceeded to Belle Isle, while he embarked on a fishing trip...
People mostly remember Baron Hailsham as Sir Douglas McGarel Hogg (TIME, May 16, 1927). With the inferior title he made a great name for himself in the House of Commons as Attorney General; and for years Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin depended on Sir Douglas to carry the brunt of many a debate, silence hecklers, sit tight...
...Debated and confirmed the appointment of Roy Owen West as Secretary of the Interior. It was recalled that Secretary West was once attorney to Samuel Insull, once held stock in the Insull interests (TIME, Dec. 17). This personal participation in power transactions had been urged against Mr. West's fitness to be Secretary of the Interior, to serve on the Water Power Commission...
...Attorney General in President Coolidge's cabinet is John Garibaldi Sargent, huge, rustic, wise friend and onetime neighbor of Mr. Coolidge in Vermont. His first assistant is kinetic Col. William J. ("Wild Bill") Donovan, who last week whisked away from magic Washington to New Mexico, there to wrestle with the Mexican boundary problem. He went happy, gay and debonair because a little bird had told him he would be Attorney General when, soon, Vermonters Coolidge and Sargent had retired into history. Though nothing more than a bird would stand sponsor for this piquant prediction...
...compliment, no complement to her husband. Mrs. Mabel Brady Garvan is both to her Francis Patrick Garvan. She, daughter of the late very wealthy Anthony N. Brady, sister of Nicholas Frederic Brady (Anaconda Copper, gas & electric utilities, Chrysler Motors), chose him when he was a vigorous, powerful assistant district attorney in New York City.* He was her brother-in-law, brother of Nicholas F. Brady's wife Genevieve Garvan Brady. And ever since she has worked, sometimes behind him, usually beside him, never before him, always with him-through his private management of their joined wealth, his custodianship...