Word: cummingses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President Wilbur L. Cummings, Jr. '37 says that membership in his organization, the oldest of its kind in America, now totals 35 men, of whom 20 are licensed pilots.
Mrs. Roosevelt had Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes on her right and the duck-hunting senior Associate Justice, Willis Van. Devanter, at her left. All the other members of the Court except liberal Louis Dembitz Brandeis, who, at 80, goes to no evening functions, and liberal Harlan F. Stone, recuperating...
Says Mr. Cummings of his work, done at home between 10 p. m. and 2 a.m., over a year's time: "It is ... the story of emotions, methods, and motives in that crucial zone of law and government bordering both upon the courts and the executive." The Attorney General...
One of Andrew Johnson's appointees, William M. Evarts, left office saying: "I shall return to my business of farming and lawing and leave to the newspaper correspondents the conduct of affairs." Such great controversies as those over Federalism, the U. S. Bank, Dred Scott, Monopoly, Eugene V. Debs...
Interpretation of the law, Mr. Cummings says, has to be placed somewhere. He does, however, go hard on members of the judiciary-high and low-who have been inclined to favor unduly business and financial groups. More than that, the Attorney General is concerned with adequate enforcement of the law...