Word: hugheses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Next, to the White House, to spend the night, came Charles Evans Hughes, just back from a bask in Bermuda. From his rangeful knowledge of courts, prosecutions, procedure, he drew much solemn counsel, many a suggestion to help President Hoover on the mechanics of his inquiry.
Walter Hughes Newton of Minneapolis, to be a $10,000 Presidential secretary. Ten years a Minnesota member of Congress, Mr. Newton will now leave the Capitol to serve as White House contact-man with the many scattered independent executive bureaus and commissions.* Big, burly, strong-voiced, he directed the Speakers...
To Charles Evans Hughes was paid $75,000 for explaining to the U.S. Supreme Court why more than 5 cents should be charged for a New York subway ride.
The third volume of Rupert Hughes' "George Washington", the first two of which aroused much comment, will be published in the fall.
Politics had nothing to do with the Mitchell appointment, because he boasts that he is an "oldfashioned independent Democrat," except that he voted for Hughes in 1916, Coolidge in 1924, Hoover in 1928. Slender, brown-eyed, gently persuasive in manner, a sailor of summer boats on White Bear Lake, Minn...