Word: may
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Frank O. Salisbury during the President's holiday at Sapeloe Island. Friends thought it was good, except that Calvin Coolidge never held his head as imperiously as that (see col. 2), and it makes him a lot younger, firmer-fleshed, cleaner cut, than he really looks. That, however, may be what a good portrait should do. Furthermore, as the late John Singer Sargent once said: "A portrait is a picture in which something-is-wrong-with-the-eyes...
...convenience, the four Coolidge vacations may be taken as milestones from which to look back and forward...
Opposition to a President may be a friendly thing, productive of large and pleasant rewards. Such a reward last week came to Representative Finis James Garrett of Tennessee, onetime printer, editor, teacher, lawyer, and now leader of the Democracy in the House. President Coolidge appointed him to the U. S. Court of Customs Appeals. Mr. Garrett had reached up for a Senate rung in the Tennessee political ladder last year, missed his grip...
...bankrupt's assets, with all the moral rigor of the U. S. behind it. In practice the judge appoints a supposedly disinterested and trustworthy person as receiver who does the actual work, subject only to final court review. The Federal law fixes the service charges a receiver may make upon the assets, ranging from 6% on $500 or less, down to 1% on $10,000 or more. In effect the creditors pay the receiver from funds they would otherwise get. Thus receiverships are profitable political plums whereby many a lawyer swells his income...
...Judge may be dishonest. He may be leagued with his appointees to abstract and share a larger percentage of the assets than the law allows, thus cheating legitimate creditors. Politics largely controls Federal judicial appointments in the lowest courts and old political debts can be quietly discharged by appointment of a small group of the judge's friends as receivers. A judge's old law partner may likewise be overfavored with such assignments from the court. A good Federal judge scatters his receiverships; a bad one uses them for political or personal profit...