Word: cropley
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Kellogg (who will continue as Secretary of State until the arrival of Henry Lewis Stimson) took reserved seats well forward. The Chief moved up to the rose-decked reading stand among the microphones. Chief Justice Taft, in black robes and skullcap, moved to his side. Supreme Court Clerk Elmer Cropley handed the Chief Justice a small, new Bible, ribboned to Matthew 5 (The Sermon on the Mount). It was really raining...
Married. Charles Elmore Cropley, 33, of Washington, D. C., youngest clerk of the United States Supreme Court, which he began to serve as page, at the age of 13; to Miss Roma Virginia Wornall, of Kansas City, Mo., in Kansas City...
...Cropley had taken the matter to Justice Sutherland, who is assigned to the Pacific Circuit. Justice Sutherland shook his head. He said that the Supreme Court had already decided on the issue brought up, and the decision was adverse. Nothing could be done. Chief Justice Taft had said the same thing; so had Justice Sanford...
...morning of the fatal day, Cropley met Justice Stone coming into court and again was denied intercession. He cornered Justice Brandeis in a corridor and was refused for the fifth time...
Undeterred, Cropley cleared a wire to San Quentin in case a last minute reprieve should be given. Then he walked into the Chambers of the Court, where the Justices were consulting on their opinions, and laid the appeal before the Chief Justice. Never before had such procedure taken place...