Word: courting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senator bothered to obtain confirmation for Curtis D. Wilbur as a U. S. Circuit Court judge...
...permanent Court of International Justice . . . American ideals. . . . American statesmanship. No more potent instrumentality for this purpose has ever been conceived and no other is practicable of establishment. The reservations placed upon our adherence should not be misinterpreted...
Attorney-General. William DeWitt Mitchell, as a Minnesota boy, yearned to be an electrical engineer. Fishing in the Mississippi, he carried screws, coils, wire and switches in his jeans as well as worms and tackle. His father was by way of becoming a distinguished justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court when the callow son said he had no use for law because he "never knew a lawyer who amounted to very much." He played the mandolin and mumble-dy-peg, went to Lawrenceville. played lacrosse, went to the Sheffield Scientific School at Yale...
...returned to Minnesota to enter the State University, to become a lawyer. His practice began and continued with "the greatest law firm between Chicago and the Pacific coast," later known as Mitchell, Doherty, Rumble, Bunn & Butler. Pierce Butler was long senior partner before his advancement to the Supreme Court of the United States...
...Camp Zachary Taylor for the World War. In 1925 Justice Butler whispered the Mitchell name into the Coolidge ear and-presto!-Mr. Mitchell found himself Solicitor-General of the U. S. Such a good impression did he make as the Government's advocate before the U. S. Supreme Court that the Justices broadly hinted to President Hoover that he would be overlooking a good bet if he did not utilize the Mitchell legal talents in a top-notch of his Cabinet...