Word: sargents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Attorney General Sargent resumed his place as a White House guest. His family is still in Vermont...
...Sunday the President and Mrs. Coolidge attended the morning services at the First Congregational Church. Then they boarded the Mayflower. Up the gangplank with them went Attorney General Sargent, Secretary and Mrs. Jardine, Sollicitor General Mitchell and Miss Pollard, a cousin of the President. Steaming down the Potomac, they left Washington for an overnight cruise...
...question of granting a 5% increase in freight rates to the western railroads. At Chicago, where the Edgewater Beach Hotel rears its creamy buttresses above Lake Michigan, Clyde B. Aitchison, Chairman of the Interstate Commerce Commission, last week opened hearings on this question. Before him came Fred W. Sargent, President of the Chicago and Northwestern, L. E. Wettling, Manager of the Statistical Bureau of the western railways, Charles Donnelly, President of the Northern Pacific, and many another. They came to present the railways' side of the case and were questioned by Mr. Aitchison, by shippers and others opposed...
...followed tradition in hearing a speech from the U, S. Attorney General. Last year big Harlan F. Stone warned against shyster and semi-shyster attorneys This year big John G. Sargent warned against the same. He, a country lawyer, pointed out the tendency among urban attorneys to advertise themselves, to present "surprise" evidence, to forget the veneration which in less noisy times was paid to the great Principles of Justice...
...McCarl then waxed wroth, He wrote a letter to Attorney General Sargent. He said in almost so many words that the Department of Justice had not done its duty in presenting the case,, had failed to bring before the court lega points which he had suggested in a memorandum. He added "this office must decline to accept the memorandum opinion of the Court of Claims in this case...