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...Sugar Exchange, the U. S. Rubber Co., the Associated Press,* other clients have been "Mother" Jones and Eugene V. Debs, the National Window Glass Workers' Union, the Irish Free State. As a member of the Judiciary Committee of the House in the 62nd Congress, he sponsored the 'Clayton Act which declared that labor unions could not be prosecuted under the Sherman Anti-Trust Law. As Solicitor General he upheld the Adamson Eight-Hour Law for railroad employes and prosecuted several anti-trust cases...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: This Davis | 7/21/1924 | See Source »

...winner of this year's Pulitzer Prize; Alexander Black, Mary Austin, Gertrude Atherton, novelists; Edwin Arlington Robinson, poet. Below, at smaller tables, were countless others?playwrights such as Owen Davis and Zoe Akins; novelists such as Fannie Hurst and Harvey Fergusson; critics such as Henry Seidel Canby and Clayton Hamilton. Such a clatter! I have never heard more noise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Contrast | 5/26/1924 | See Source »

...least, surprising. The thought that either Dr. Matthews or the Advisory Board would be influenced in their decision by the fact that the author of the play ultimately chosen for distinction was a Columbia professor is neither convincing nor worthy a man of Mr. Johnson's established reputation. Mr. Clayton Bamilton's summary of the situation, however, seems eminently fair. The choice of Dr. Matthews and the Advisory Board is no more open to the charge of favoritism than is the championing by Professor Phelps, on the first ballot of the selection committee, of "The Changelings", which was written...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CHARGED WIRES | 5/19/1924 | See Source »

...Until the other noon I had never met Professor Matthews. Many of his works on the Drama I knew and admired. I had read and even published various articles on his habits of mind by men not nearly so wise. The other noon in company with William Lyon Phelps, Clayton Hamilton, Jesse Lynch Wil-liams?an ill-assorted but renowned trio ?I had an opportunity to talk with Professor Matthews. His anecdotes contain memories of Mark Twain, George Meredith, Oscar Wilde. Genial, kindly, brilliant, gay, stimulating, he is all things a literary gentleman should be. Somehow, and quite without...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Waste* | 4/28/1924 | See Source »

...burned on till the substance disintegrated, had the laboratory not been destroyed by lightning. Suit was brought against him in the New York State Supreme Court. Many of his statements were proved false or were at variance with known scientific laws. Two disinterested illuminating engineers, Cyprian O. Maillaux and Clayton H. Sharp, after investigating the plant at Harrison, N. J., reported: "Nothing was shown which would convince us that the apparatus has any practical application, or that it has any industrial or commercial value...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Bottled Sunshine | 3/10/1924 | See Source »

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