Word: littleton
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Confirmed the nominations of Benjamin H. Littleton as judge of the Court of Claims and Walter Ewing Hope as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury...
...Littleton of the Board of Tax Appeals. Mr. Mellon knew which of these three he would prefer; but when, at the end of the week, President Hoover made the appointment, no one of the three was chosen. The Kentucky G. O. P. had proposed, and President Hoover accepted, Robert Hendry Lucas of Louisville, for eight years...
...enumerated above are encountered with wearisome incessancy throughout the year. In Property I Professor Edward Warren's casebook is an amazing confession of the hopelessness of the task which it essays. The pages are heavily laden with so-called "notes" by the author and extracts from the texts of Littleton, Coke, Black stone. Fearne, Washburn and others calculated to bring to light the shreds of learning which the cases have obscured. To call such a book a casebook is an egregious misnomer, and with it as the basis of instruction the "system" under which the course is conducted might...
...when the oil scandals were white-hot, Oilman Sinclair was called before the Senate Public Lands Committee. Ten questions were put to him. One question was whether he had given money to Albert Bacon Fall, whilom Secretary of the Interior. Oilman Sinclair, on advice of counsel, Martin Wilie Littleton, refused to answer every question...
...Eugene Cornelius Sullivan, 56, invented Pyrex glassware for the Corning Glass Works. His aids were Dr. J. T. Littleton, his chief physicist and W. C. Taylor, his chief chemist...