Word: court
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Elder Statesman Elihu Root arrived at the White House, just back from Geneva where, with other famed jurists, he had been revising World Court statutes. President Hoover kept him for luncheon. They talked of Mr. Root's new formula for getting the U. S. into the Court over the Senate's reservation against advisory opinions. Secretary of State Stimson was present, a statesman with an ear quick and open to Elder Statesman Root, who gave him his first law job and later took him in as a junior partner...
Then Idaho's Borah, in his capacity as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, called upon the President. He had many a thing to say about the World Court, about reparations, about naval armaments...
...Starbuck, New York mechanical engineer, patent attorney, Democrat, to the Federal Radio Commission. As President Coolidge had unsuccessfully done before him, President Hoover sent to the Senate for confirmation the name of Irvine Luther Lenroot, onetime (1918-27) Senator from Wisconsin, to be Judge on the U. S. Court of Customs & Patents Appeals...
...Supreme Court. For 70 years the U. S. Supreme Court has sat in a room in the Capitol less impressive than many a county court room. Cramped in between House and Senate, the Justices lack adequate offices, take their cases home to work on. A new Supreme Court Building (ten millions) of classic lines will soon rise opposite the Capitol, north of the Library of Congress. To make room for this new structure the "Old Capitol"?in which Congress sat after the 1814 fire, in which Civil War prisoners were housed, in which the National Woman's Party...
Seated within a three-panel screen, an old Negro pulls a red plush cord to swing open a small door and admit you to the Supreme Court of the U. S. Mounting two steps around a partition, you come abruptly into the court chamber. Facing you sit the nine Justices of the U. S. seated augustly behind their long desk-like bench. You immediately identify Chief Justice Taft, ponderous in the centre. The small semicircular chamber is dimly lighted. Faces, features, are not sharp. Level voices fall without echo in the shadows...