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...last year's Chicago convention Cordell Hull wrote his own Washington orders-the party platform planks on tariff and foreign affairs. The President remains the final executor of these orders and his Secretary of State, a lawyer by trade and training, functions as an obedient attorney of the Stimson type. But planted deep within the silent Hull ego is an attachment to the principles at stake that is older and deeper than President Roosevelt's, and a tenacity which may outlast that of the White House should the latter weaken...
...president of the Manitoba Red Cross and of the League of Nations Society. Since 1912 he had been a K. C.- King's Counsel. Through his investment firm were handled the trust and endowment funds of the University and the diocese. Lawyer Machray was a nephew, heir and executor of the late pioneering Archbishop Robert Machray, who, like his successor Archbishop Samuel Pritchard Matheson, left the administration of church funds in Lawyer Machray's hands. In Winnipeg it was common to hear, "A Machray can do no wrong...
...rampart of conservatism. Committee conservatives are Architect Cass Gilbert, Lawyers Elihu Root Jr., William Church Osborn and Sugarman Horace Havemeyer who has given the Metropolitan many a Degas, Manet, Puvis de Chavannes. Modernism might have been doomed but for Committeeman Cornelius Bliss, a recent appointee,* brother and estate executor of the late Lizzie Bliss, benefactor of the Museum of Art. Conscientious, publicity shy, Cornelius Bliss is stanch for his late sister's modern art. When Curator Burroughs presented his nine selections to the Committee, Committeemen Gilbert and Root were absent. The Committee passed nine pictures on to the Board...
...have an accounting of his late father's estate authorized, John Pierpont Morgan, trustee, sued John Pierpont Morgan, executor...
...objections, contending that the will in question was not the last Erlanger will, that at the time of its execution Erlanger was not of sound mind, that the will showed fraud and undue influence exerted by Mr. Erlanger's brother and sisters and Saul J. Baron, an executor of the will. Last October the matter came to trial...