Word: becks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...serious condition which has been brought about in the Supreme Court by the overwhelming number and complexity of cases which the Court must hear, was called to the attention of the New York Bar Association by Solicitor General James M. Beck. According to Mr. Beck the Court literally does ten times as much work as it did in the days of Chief Justice Marshall. He regards the pressure under which the Court works as a dangerous condition...
...have already addressed the Club this year are the Honorable J. M. Beck, Solicitor-General of the United States; the Honorable L. A. Coolidge '83, former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury; Colonel Theodore Roosevelt '09, Assistant Secretary of the Navy; and Senator J. W. Wadsworth of New York...
Colonel Roosevelt outlined the work and significance of the recent Washington Conference on the Limitation of Armaments, and particularly of the work of Senator Henry Cabot Lodge '71 in that convention. Mr. James Montgomery Beck, Solicitor-General of the United States, followed Mr. Roosevelt with an urgent appeal for college men to take more of an interest in politics...
...Beck spoke forcefully of the need of college men in politics. He declared that America has a great destiny to fulfill and that this can only be accomplished by the active interest of educated men in the political and international questions...
...James Montgomery Beck, who, with Lieutenant-Colonel Roosevelt, will speak at the Union, was formerly United States Attorney in Pennsylvania and Assistant Attorney-General during the administration of President Roosevelt. He now occupies the post of Solicitor-General of the United States...