Word: courtly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...discovered that he, smooth of hair, chiseled of chin, impeccably attired, was expert at mapping out White House ceremonials. It was he, for example, who lately and finally ranked "the ladies of the land," as follows: Mrs. President, Mrs. Vice President, Mrs. Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Mrs. Speaker of the House, Mrs. Secretary of State...
...Game." Frank Leslie Smith, Senator-suspect from Illinois, had another "day in court" with the Campaign Funds Investigation Committee. He read a long statement which "flouted" the Senate er "championed" Illinois, according to viewpoint. Illinois had elected him, the Senate must seat him, said he. The Senators had heard this argument before, from impartial Senator Borah, whose vote had been for seating Mr. Smith, out of respect to Illinois, then ousting Mr. Smith to punish political simony. After Mr. Smith, the Committee listened to a long-awaited explanation by Samuel Insull, potentate of gas, light and politics in Chicago...
Complete plans and the judges for the final round of the Ames Competition in the Law School were announced yesterday by the committee in charge of the trials. The case will be tried in Langdell Hall Friday before the Honorable C.W. Pound of the New York Court of Appeals, who will act as chief-justice, Honorable D.E. Campbell of the Supreme Court of South Dakota, and W. L. Mecoy '82, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia...
Justice Pound was Professor of Law at Cornell and Counsel to the Governor of New York until he was appointed a Justice of the Eighth District Supreme Court in 1906. He was on that bench until 1915 when he filled a vacancy as Associate Judge of the Court of Appeals, to which post he was later elected, which he now fills. He is chairman of the committee to revise the Judiciary Article of the New York State Constitution...
Justice McCoy was a representative from New Jersey districts to the Sixty Second and Sixty-Third Congress. In 1916 he was appointed Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Washington D.C. Justice Campbell was appointed President of the Board of Education of Aberdeen, South Dakota in 1920, later pecoming city attorney there. In 1925 he was appointed Judge of the Supreme Court of South Dakota. He is coming East expressly to preside at the trial...