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Tantalizing Chancellor. Months ago Philip Snowden's 1930 budget became the state secret most tantalizing to British businessmen. If he should decide to revoke the so-called McKenna duties protecting British auto makers, these gentry knew they would almost have to close up shop. How could they find out what was in Snowden's mind? They could not. Punch cartooned the Chancellor of the Exchequer with his box of secrets clutched under his arm, snarling at businessmen who wanted information. Punch was right, but so was Snowden. The budget of the world's greatest empire is by tradition a "political...
...five years had a vacancy occurred among the associate justices of the Supreme Court. When Joseph McKenna left the bench in 1925, to die the next year, President Coolidge made his single Supreme Court appointment in the person of Harlan Fiske Stone, now the youngest Justice (aged 57). President Harding, in less than two years, named a chief justice, three associate justices. Insurance actuaries, surveying the present court membership (average age, 69), would predict that President Hoover would have at least as many Supreme appointments to make during his term...
...Justice Taney by Leutze, who painted the familiar "Washington Crossing the Delaware." The portrait of the great chief justice is regarded as notable; it shows him at the age of 83, and was made in 1859 for his daughter. On the same wall are portraits of Justices Story, Gray, McKenna; Brown, Holmes, Moody, Brandeis, and Sanford, and of Chief Justice Fuller and Taft, all of the United States Supreme Bench. Chief Justice Fuller and Justices Brown, Gray, Brandeis, Holmes; Story, Sanford, and Moody were either professors at Harvard or graduates of the School. Justice Benjamin R. Curtis, A.B. 1829, LL.B...
...dean. In 1924 President Coolidge, who never forgot a good man, called him to Washington, made him Attorney-General, asked him to ventilate thoroughly the Department of Justice after Harry Micajah Daugherty. Within a year President Coolidge advanced him to the Supreme Court to succeed Justice Joseph McKenna, resigned...
...fire). A White House guard directs him up a corridor leading off the right side of the lobby. He is eyed as he advances by a Secret Service man seated or lounging at the corridor's end. Across from this sentinel sits a watchdog, Doorman Pat McKenna. Credentials are inspected and the Job-Seeker is shown through a heavy white door into the President's No. 1 Secretary's office...