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...Hughes, spare and fortyish, is, like his father, a Brown graduate. In 1929 he was appointed U. S. Solicitor General by a President grateful for the elder Hughes's services during the 1928 campaign. With the President he played Hooverball each morning behind the White House. When his father was appointed Chief Justice he promptly resigned as Solicitor General, the Government's No. 1 advocate before the Supreme Court. As a parting keepsake the President gave him a Hooverball. Last week Mr. Hughes, also in a soft refined voice, addressed the Essex County (N. J.) Women...
...Rufus Isaacs became Solicitor General and a knight. A few months later he was Attorney General (Sir John Simon was his subordinate). In 1913 he became Lord Chief Justice, the next year a baron. Between those years he had been a lieutenant of David Lloyd George, helped to engineer the House of Lords reform, survived the scandal that threatened to end his career. As Attorney General he approved a contract whereby British Marconi Co. was permitted to construct a chain of wireless stations throughout the Empire. Before the contract was drawn he had bought 10,000 shares in American Marconi...
...orderly and exact form the ordinances now in force in Cambridge. To do this, Professor Landis and his assistants will be obliged to examine all the ordinances now in effect that have been passed by the council since 1912 and balance them with all the opinions of the city solicitor," continued the Mayor...
...Reynolds did not immediately appear to answer the charge. She was. her father said, in seclusion recovering from shock. Four days after her indictment she gave herself up at tiny Wentworth, N. C., 40 mi. from Winston-Salem. On hand to greet her were her attorneys and the State solicitor. She wore a heavy black veil, was accompanied by a nurse. Taken into court, Mrs. Reynolds was released on $25.000 bail with the consent of the prosecutor...
Right & Wrong? Amid the angry murmurs of Conservative M. P.'s, bland Labor M. P. Sir Richard Stafford Cripps, onetime Solicitor General, rose and gave his learned opinion that the Free State has the right to abolish the oath its Deputies and Senators swear to His Majesty, this right resting squarely on the Statute of Westminister passed by the London Parliament (TIME, Dec. 7). Conservative Winston Churchill agreed...