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While the commission maintained its gravelike silence, one of the commissioners, U. S. District Judge Paul John McCormick, returned to his Los Angeles home for the holidays. There, "speaking as an individual," he gave an interview on the commission's work, in which he saw two major problems-Prohibition enforcement and "governmental lawlessness." Deploring the search of private homes by Dry agents without warrants, he observed...
Despite the fact that Judge McCormick had lately sat on the U. S. bench in Manhattan, had there issued many a Dry padlock order against Broadway night clubs, Senator Harris cried: "Just what I feared! . . . An encouragement to violations of the law. . . . A partisan against Prohibition unfit to hold office on the commission. . . . Prohibition forces will be greatly disappointed if the President does not remove this...
...Robert Rutherford McCormick, whose husband part owns the Chicago Tribune and Liberty, lost a lawsuit at Aiken, S. C., over a horse which she had bought from S. A. Warner Baltazzi of Westbury, L. I. The Court ordered her to pay $3,500 to Baltazzi. Her complaint: the horse was lame...
...Other famed 79ers: Frank Presbrey (advertising), Trustee Cyrus Hall McCormick (Board Chairman of International Harvester Co.): Trustee Edward Wright Sheldon (Manhattan lawyer); onetime Princeton Dean William Francis Magie; the late financier Cleveland Hoadley Dodge; the late famed Judge Alfred Salem Niles of Baltimore; the late Banker Trustee Parker Douglas Handy of Manhattan; Robert Harris McCarter, onetime (1903-08) Attorney-General of New Jersey; the late Peter Joseph Hamilton of Mobile, author, onetime (1913-21) Judge of Porto Rican District Court...
...Edith Rockefeller McCormick, divorced wife of Harold Fowler McCormick, published the final number of her love song cycle (music by Mrs. Eleanor Everest Freer). Prior numbers were entitled "How Can We Know?" and "I Write Not to Thee, Dearest." The last one was "Love." Excerpt...