Word: sargents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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John Garibaldi Sargent,* 64, six feet three, about 225 Ibs. in weight (he has been nearer 300 Ibs., but recently has been ill), low-collared, with stormy gray hair and a wrinkly weather-beaten face, was turned into an Attorney General almost before the country knew...
...Senate, after insisting on its right to inspect Mr. Warren with a political microscope, received the nomination of Mr. Sargent shortly after 1 p.m. and referred it to the Judiciary Com mittee (which met at 2:30 and, in half an hour, heard three Senators speak in Mr. Sargent's favor and reported unanimously in favor of the appointment), received the Committee's report later in the afternoon, considered it just a moment behind closed doors ; then opened the doors, had the motion to confirm put and answered in unison with a rumbling "Aye." There is reason to believe that...
...that he could not control the new Senate any better than he could its predecessor. Others believed that it would strengthen him to have antagonized the Senate, especially since the people would feel that the Senate had played politics, been hypercritical about Mr. Warren and entirely uncritical about Mr. Sargent. Others predicted that all breaches would be repaired and the clash forgotten before Congress assembled again...
...morning last week, the President called him by long distance and asked: "Will you be Attorney General ?" "I will," answered Mr. Sargent. That afternoon, the Senate confirmed him. The next afternoon, he had taken office and was at his desk in Washington...
...last time he had been in Washington was on Mar. 4 when "J. G. Sargent, Ludlow, Vt." registered at the Willard. He had come down on the train with Colonel John Coolidge and his party; and the story is that he had treated the whole party to railroad and Pullman tickets. Although he dined at the White House as the guest of the President, he is said to have preferred to have his meals in the basement of the White House with the Secret Service men with whom he had made friends the summer before at Plymouth. He kept...