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...preposterous crimes, what these twelve men voted to do with him. Author Thayer has saved his case histories from being boring by his brisk narration, his breezy bits of salaciousness; the sexual life of his jurymen is as varied as their nationalities, and their author tells much. Illustrator Mahlon Blaine helps him to the best of his ability...
...Republican faith. U.S. Circuit Judge Taft observed his legal ability, marked him as a good man. President Roosevelt brought him to Washington in 1907 as an assistant Attorney General, sent him back to Tennessee the next year as a U.S. District Judge. When in 1922 ill health forced Justice Mahlon Pitney to resign from the Supreme Court, Chief Justice Taft recommended to President Harding the appointment of "Ed" Sanford as his successor. On the high bench Justice Sanford belonged instinctively with the conservative majority, particularly on economic questions. He rarely dissented...
...like reasons, and gave wads of these bonds to Albert Bacon Fall, the Secretary of the Interior who leased him Teapot Dome, not as a gift but to buy an interest in Fall's ranch in New Mexico. There was the same Fall son-in-law, Rancher Mahlon T. Everhart, to testify how this ranch transaction was made...
...Sinclair, he took Fall's son-in-law, Mahlon T. Everhart, aboard his private car in the Washington railroad yards one night and handed over $198,000 in Liberty Bonds, supplementing this sum with $35,000 at his Manhattan office some days later. He was supposed to be buying a one-third interest in a run-down ranch of Fall's at Tres Rios (Three Rivers), N. Mex. They were going to turn the ranch into a country-club. But no club eventuated. Fall used the money to pay off debts and improve the property...
Addressing the House Ways & Means Committee last week, Representative John Nance Garner, Democratic leader, said: "New Hampshire is the birthplace of the present President of the United States." Up flew the two hands of Mahlon H. Morse, a New Hampshire gentleman "Vermont!" cried Mr. Morse. "Well," said Representative Garner from large-sized Texas: "I knew there were a couple of small states up near where the President was born...