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...Maryland. If he was to have a political career he had to be dramatized. So he acquired a curious jack-of-all-political-trades named Samuel Davis Wilson. Mr. Wilson began issuing statements for Controller Hadley that made news: How city funds bought a barber's chair for City Solicitor Augustus Trask ("Dandy Gus) Ashton; how Coroner Schwarz got a $25 desk pad, and a $25 wastebasket. And presently Mr. Wilson, although no member of the Bar, was allowed by a friendly judge personally to argue a big traction suit in which he was opposed by some of Philadelphia...
...Deal, determined to have its taxes whether they are constitutional or not, had no intention of letting rebels off so easily as that. Some Federal courts have granted temporary injunctions against tax collections only on condition that the disputed taxes be placed in their custody. Last week AAA Solicitor Seth Thomas declared that on passage of the AAAmendments all pending tax suits will be thrown out of court and all taxes in the court's custody will pass automatically to the Government...
...broadcasters, the 3% represents the popular tunes most in demand.) The Government has contended that music is a physical thing-a commodity which is transmitted from State to State. Burkan's persistent retort has been that music is "intangible and incorporeal." Lawyer Thomas Day Thacher. U. S. Solicitor General under Herbert Hoover, entered the trial to argue that ASCAP existed only to protect the rights of composers and lyric writers, pooh-poohed the idea that the organization was potent enough to dominate an industry which includes such interests as American Telephone & Telegraph Co., General Electric, Westinghouse, Radio Corporation...
...White House side door to the President's office. In that office sat a man whom the Supreme Court had stunned to silence with its annihilation of NRA. Down that corridor marched huffy Hugh S. Johnson who for a twelvemonth was NRA personified; sickish Donald Richberg and sheepish Solicitor General Reed whose defense of NRA before the Supreme Court had proved so footling; William Green and John L. Lewis to whom NRA was a professional gift from heaven; dapper Averell Harriman who manned NRA after its first champions had departed; gawky Attorney General Cummings who had tried to enforce...
Guards stood at the door of the Courtroom keeping crowds of tourists at bay in the corridors. Newshawks and those with passes entered the Courtroom through the adjoining marshal's office. At the counsel table sat Donald Richberg and Solicitor General Stanley Reed who had argued the test case, both in fine fettle...