Word: sargent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Attorney Serri, fuming, not a bit rueful, retaliated with a letter of complaint to Chief Justice William Howard Taft, copies of which were sent to Attorney General John Garibaldi Sargent and the Brooklyn Bar Association. Wrote Mr. Serri: "By indirection, with almost unspeakable vulgarity . . . [Judge Atwell] practically approved and incited the repetition by the officers of such conduct in this city. I doubt whether in all judicial annals there can be found such open incitement to public disorder and breach of the peace as the words of this judge. ... I submit to you that for a Judge...
...Odalivitch, of Seattle, Washington, last week, begged Mrs. Coolidge to intercede for Mark Dowell, her son, who was sentenced to hang at San Quentin, Calif., for killing a San Francisco policeman. Mrs. Coolidge did what she could. She asked President Coolidge to act. He in turn asked Attorney-General Sargent to tell Mrs. Odalivitch what course to take. The Sargent advice was to appeal to a justice of the United States Supreme Court, to review the case. That had already been done unsuccessfully. Mark Dowell was hanged...
Last week, U. S. Attorney General John Garibaldi Sargent approved a parole...
...Sargent Arrives...
...almost his most prolific year, the late John Singer Sargent completed 31 portraits and 18 other pictures. One of the former was a Portrait of Mrs. Arthur Knowles and Children, a gayly sentimental painting showing the pretty Mrs. Knowles lounging on a sofa, embracing two affectionate little boys who nuzzled against her. Less cool than most of Sargent's glimpses at maternity, charming because of its humanity rather than, like most Sargents, because of brilliant artifice, the picture was kept in the Knowles house and secreted from the public. Last week it arrived, for popular inspection, in the Howard...