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Early in 1938, there turned up at the Galleries a bustling insurance solicitor named John Geery, who had gone to Sunday school with Logan in Brooklyn. They had not seen each other for 20 years. John Geery liked the look of the business and had a little money to invest. Soon the Sunday school chums were partners. Rank art amateurs both-but both good salesmen-they persuaded Widow Bishop and Edith Nixon to sell out to them for a mere $175,000. Geery made the down payment of $10,000, became secretary-treasurer. Logan paid nothing, became president. Most...
...meantime the Lampooners were thrown into consternation when they were told by their attorney, Richard C. Evarts '13, Cambridge City Solicitor, that Sullivan had an "open and shut" case against them...
Nobody quite succeeded in fixing the pattern. Nobody was surprised that President Roosevelt appointed Frank Murphy to succeed Pierce Butler on the Supreme Court; that Solicitor General Robert Jackson stepped up to the Attorney-Generalship (and maybe to a better starting position, said the Washington Post, for a run for the Vice-Presidency); that earnest, aristocratic Francis Biddle of Philadelphia stepped from the Circuit Court of Appeals to the Solicitor-Generalship (TIME, Jan. 8). Nor was there much surprise that five new, long-impending State Department appointments were carried through. Nominations poured from the White House to the Senate...
...Receive and debate (in the Senate) politically vital appointments by the President. As of last weekend, they would include: Attorney General Frank Murphy for the U. S. Supreme Court; Solicitor General Robert Houghwout Jackson to succeed Frank Murphy; Circuit Judge Francis Biddle of Philadelphia to succeed Bob Jackson...
...social splurge in Washington, D. C. was the joint debut at the Carlton Hotel of Mary Margaret Jackson and Jean Browne Wallace, 18-year-old daughters of Solicitor General Robert Houghwout (pronounced Howett) Jackson and Secretary of Agriculture Henry Agard Wallace. Carrying bouquets given them by President and Mrs. Roosevelt, the debutantes for two straight hours hand-shook Washington socialites, Government wigs and hangers-on. Also reigning in another section of the hotel drawing room were the fathers, who did not cease to beam all afternoon. Gurgled Washington Post Society Pundit Hope Ridings Miller: "More men-young and older-than...