Word: courting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Coolidge summoned the Senate to confirm his successor's Cabinet and other appointments. ¶To the Senate for confirmation as U. S. Radio Commissioners President Coolidge sent the names of Arthur Batcheller of Massachusetts, Cyril N. Jansky Jr. of Minnesota; for associate justices on the U. S. Customs Court of Appeals. Finis James Garrett of Tennessee, Irvine Luther Lenroot of Wisconsin; and, to sit on the bench of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, Henry H. Glassie of Maryland...
Work Not Done. The World Court has not been joined; the farmer has not been '"relieved"; railroads are still unconsolidated; the coal industry is still bogged; there has been no extension of naval disarmament agreements; prohibition remains a mess. All these were Coolidge projects...
...President may be a friendly thing, productive of large and pleasant rewards. Such a reward last week came to Representative Finis James Garrett of Tennessee, onetime printer, editor, teacher, lawyer, and now leader of the Democracy in the House. President Coolidge appointed him to the U. S. Court of Customs Appeals. Mr. Garrett had reached up for a Senate rung in the Tennessee political ladder last year, missed his grip...
...went two other names that caused much less elation. One was Irvine Luther Lenroot, onetime (1918-27) Wisconsin Senator, to sit also on the Customs Appeals bench; the other, Henry H. Classic, Maryland Democrat and once a very much abused U. S. Tariff Commissioner, to the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia...
...United States cannot have her cake and eat it. If she profits by the Court, she must also bear responsibility. This she is now shirking. However, as Mr. Elliott explains, there is little value in an opinion unless it is received voluntarily. The World Court at least offers a point of contact between nations, a place for the storms of arbitration. This remains, although the United States insists on disarming the council...