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...Hurricanes (Stephen Sanford, Eric Pedley, Capt. C. T. I. Roark, Robert E. Strawbridge Jr.): the U. S. Open Polo Championship at Meadow Brook, coming from behind with four goals in a row to beat Winston Guest and his Templetons...
...form of a confidential letter to the White House which had inadvertently got into the judiciary committee files. This letter was from Assistant Secretary of the Interior Joseph M. Dixon, a North Carolinian, to Walter Newton, political secretary to President Hoover, written three days after the death of Justice Sanford. Excerpts: "North Carolina gave President Hoover 65,000 majority. It carries more hope of future permanent alignment with the Republican party than any other southern State. . . . The naming of Judge Parker to the Supreme Court would be a major political stroke...
...issue riddled Senate has rejected Judge Parker who has been a storm cearer in the question of filling the Supreme Court chair left vacant by the late Justice Sanford. Party lines have been more tenuous than they were in the good days when a Republican lived on bread and beer a Democrat lived on bread and beer and both fought for hours about the tariff...
Another large turnup of the Lobby Committee's last week was a set of letters written by Thomas Wharton Phillips Jr. of Butler, Pa., an A. A. P. A. official, to Justice Stone and the late Justice Sanford of the U. S. Supreme Court. In these letters Mr. Phillips harangued the Justices on the evils of Prohibition and the failure of the courts to remedy conditions. Excerpts...
Judge John Johnston Parker of the Fourth U. S. Circuit Court was talking to newsmen at his home in Charlotte, N. C. They clustered about him because President Hoover had just appointed him an associate justice of the U. S. Supreme Court, vice Edward Terry Sanford, deceased. Though 77 men have been elevated to the Supreme Court in its 141 years, only two came from North Carolina...