Word: court
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Johnson that there was only one profession fitting for a Virginia gentleman. Be a lawyer, he advised the boy, a lawyer and a Democrat. Shortly after his grandfather's death, 16-year-old Louis announced, in a characteristically firm fashion: "I am going to be on the Supreme Court of the United States some...
...money for the campaign, when the Democratic Party treasury was at its lowest. It was a great political service and Fund Raiser Johnson knew what he wanted. Harry Truman made a few halfhearted attempts to fob him off with offers of the sub-Cabinet Army secretaryship or the Court of St. James's. But Louis Johnson stood fast. The weekend after his inauguration, President Harry Truman let Louis Johnson know that the prize was his at last...
...Brazil William Pawley ($5,000); Ambassador to Argentina James Bruce and wife ($4,000) ; Ambassador to Canada Laurence A. Steinhardt and daughter ($10,000); EGA Ambassador W. Averell Harriman ($5,000); former Under Secretary Will Clayton and wife ($9,000). One who refused: Lewis Douglas, Ambassador to the Court of St. James...
Around January 1, 1950, the largest section of the housing project will open to occupants. This portion of the apartment building program is made up of a three-storey building built on three sides of a garden court and a similar structure adjacent to it on Raymond Street...
Other newly-elected officers are: first vice-president, Calvert Magruder, LL.B. '16 of Cambridge, Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit; second vice-president, Monte L. Lemann '03, LL.B. '06 of New Orleans, Louisiana; secretary, C. Tracy Barnes LL.B. '37, of Providence, Rhode Island; treasurer, Paul F. Hellmuth LL.B. '43 of Boston; and assistant treasurer and secretary, Harrison S. Dimmitt, LL.B. '25 of Cambridge...