Word: courting
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William Adams Richardson; Chief Justice of the United States Court of Claims, died in Washington yesterday morning in the seventy-fifth year...
...Harvard College. Judge Richardson's connection with the federal government began in 1869 when he was appointed Assistant Secretary of the Treasury by President Grant. In 1873 he succeeded Secretary Boutwell as Secretary of the Treasury. In the following year Judge Richardson accepted a seat in the United States Court of Claims, of which he has been Chief Justice for eleven years...
Among Judge Richardson's numerous publications on financial and judicial subjects are "Banking Laws of Massachusets" and "Practical Information Concerning the Debt of the United States." He also prepared and edited a "Supplement to the Revised Statutes of the United States" and a "History of the Court of Claims...
...Altgelt to Pres. Cleveland, July, '94. II. Mr. Bryan is not a fit man to be President. (A) His political tendencies are against the best American ideas. (1) He and his party show a lack of reverence for judicious authority, (a) The Chicago platform earnestly menaces the Supreme Court (Dem. Plat., '96.) (b) Mr. Bryan sneers at the Federal Judiciary and Judge. ("Cross and Crown" speech and elsewhere). (2) If he were elected, we should be in danger from the wild vagaries of the Populist Platform (Pop. Plat., '96). (a) He would owe his election to Populist votes...
Whitman seems to have solved Driscoll's peculiar cross-court strokes, but at no time except at the start did the latter play winning tennis...