Word: hugheses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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MORRIS N. HUGHES
The specific tasks which Charles Evans Hughes will perform for John Davison Rockefeller Jr. as special counsel in the fight to oust Col. Robert Wright Stewart as Chairman of the Board of Standard Oil of Indiana are not likely to tax his skill. Many another lawyer could? and probably will?...
It was in 1904, when Lawyer Hughes was 42, that prestige and public confidence began to attach themselves to his labors in great quantity. Two state investigations, following each other in quick succession, provided the springboard for his leap into general esteem. To State Senator Frederick C. Stevens of New...
Scarcely had he finished this crusade when he plunged into another. Never had New York read more scandalous and shocking testimony than Lawyer Hughes uncovered in the Armstrong Insurance Investigation. Riddled with greed and corruption, the insurance companies had become a public menace. Hughes exposed their practices and then, from...
¶ Not to be Secretary of State: Calvin Coolidge (but he might like eventually to be Chief Justice, succeeding William Howard Taft); Charles Evans Hughes (but ditto and he needs to make money). Possibly to be: Dwight Whitney Morrow (although Mr. Hoover seemed to have difficulty in coming to this...