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...Rain fell upon President Hoover on his weekend outing at the Shenandoah National Park camp. Indoors he talked tariff with Senator Reed Smoot, congestion in U. S. prisons with Attorney General William DeWitt Mitchell He amused himself by cooking ham and eggs over a coal range, while Filipino chefs stood about as assistants...
Yale University William DeWitt Mitchell LL.D. Vincent Masscy, Canadian Minister to the U. S LL.D. Henry Lewis Stimson LL.D. Arthur Holly Compton physicist D.Sc. William Hallock Park, physician (bacteriology, hygiene) D.Sc. Willa Cather, author (Death Comes for the Archbishop) D.Litt. Henry Knox Sherrill, rector (Trinity Church, Boston) D.D. George Leslie Harrison, Governor Federal Reserve Bank of New York...
...certain reasonableness underlay the Rumor. Between President Hoover and Justice Stone exists a thoroughgoing friendship. Justice Stone was in the Hoover family circle the night its head was nominated at Kansas City. He fished with the President-Elect Hoover off Florida, and there suggested the name of William DeWitt Mitchell for Attorney-General. He dropped in for a friendly morning chat the day Mr. Hoover became President. He was among the first asked to join the medicine-ball exercise at 7 a. m. back of the White House...
Last week the same bill arose from the dead before the U. S. Supreme Court and so important seemed the issue at stake that Attorney General William DeWitt Mitchell, reverting to his old role of Solicitor-General, hurried to the Capitol to appear before the court as the President's advocate...
Attorney General Sargent, having served four years in the Cabinet of Calvin Coolidge, served one day and a fraction in the Cabinet of Herbert Hoover?until William DeWitt Mitchell was confirmed and sworn in. It was under Herbert Hoover that Mr. Sargent performed his last official act. That act was the signing of a parole releasing Col. Thomas Woodnutt Miller, onetime (1921-25) Alien Property Custodian, from Atlanta Penitentiary...