Word: kenyon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sure, Judge Kenyon of Iowa measured up to the specification of Westerner and Progressive. Republican Senators, with the coming campaign in mind, were not slow in urging Judge Kenyon's appointment. But the President considered. One evening he sent a telegram to Manhattan, and next morning Harlan Fiske Stone, Dean of the Columbia Law School, breakfasted at the White House. A bevy of Senators-Lodge, Borah, Watson, Curtis, Moses and others-were in attendance and talked with Dean Stone. At 10 A. M. Dean Stone's nomination was announced. At noon the nomination was before the Senate...
WILLIAM S. KENYON, of Iowa, U. S. District Judge...
...trained to serve my country," said the Chief Justice of the California Supreme Court. Being so trained, he could hardly refuse an opportunity for such service. President Coolidge had since March 10, an empty seat in his Cabinet. He offered it to William S. Kenyon of Iowa. Judge of the Eighth U. S. District Court. Judge Kenyon said, "Thank you, no." The same day a telegram sped across the country to San Francisco. Curtis D. Wilbur, California's Chief Justice, said "Thank...
Justice Wilbur was summoned from California. He conferred with the President and started for home. He had just reached there when Judge Kenyon of Iowa arrived in Washington, also on a summons. Judge Kenyon had all the qualifications: A judge, well known (as a former Senator), a progressive (the pet candidate for President of Senator Smith Wildman Brookhart, insurgent lowan). Judge Kenyon was offered the place. He took a day to consider, conferring with his erstwhile companions in the Senate. He said next...
Said Senator Borah of Idaho: "Judge Kenyon knows more about law books than about battleships"? a remark which led many to suspect that the Judge might accept the Attorney-Generalship should it fall vacant...