Word: chief
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...approval of wiretapping as a means of obtaining Prohibition evidence. Every legal controversy is of deep interest to him. He avoids the specialization of some of his associates on the bench. In his first four years he wrote 108 opinions. Tackle or guard, he is a comfort to the Chief Justice at centre. Perhaps he will be shifted to centre...
...observer has commented on the likelihood of Junior Justice Stone's making, sooner or later, the one judicial step higher that remains for him. It is well within probability that President Hoover, especially if he is an eight-year President, will have the appointing of the next Chief Justice. There have been ten Chief Justices. Everyone since 1800 has died in office. Eight of them (Jay, Ellsworth, Marshall, Taney, Chase, Waite, Fuller. Taft) were called from outside the Supreme Court...
...Only two Chief Justices were promoted from the bench. To one of these, John Rutledge of South Carolina, chosen by President Washington to succeed John Jay, the Senate refused confirmation and he had to resign. Jefferson observed sarcastically to Monroe that Washington's purpose had apparently been "to keep five mouths always gaping for one sugar plum."* But in 1910, when President Taft successfully elevated Edward Douglass White, the precedent was broken...
...McCoy is only one of three Treasury estimators. His figures go to Secretary Mellon and Undersecretary Mills who place them beside the work of his two peers. The McCoy calculations, however, are Secretary Mellon's chief guide in striking a reasonable balance and announcing: "The Treasury estimates that...
Behind this impersonal phrase, recurrent in all news of U. S. finances, stands a very round, very jolly, very careful man named Joseph McCoy. In his so's, Mr. McCoy is the Government's actuary, the Treasury's chief gazer info 'the fiscal future. How much will the U. S. collect next year in income taxes? Mr. McCoy scratches with a pencil, adds, subtracts, consults a sheaf of papers, brings forth an answer. How many cigarets will be smoked? How many men will die to leave large estates? How many shares of stock will change hands? On all these matters...