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...Confirmed Dwight Filley Davis as Governor-General of the Philippines, Charles Evans Hughes Jr. as U. S. Solicitor-General, Robert Hendry Lucas as Commissioner of Internal Revenue...
...reward for carrying their State for the Hoover-Curtis ticket. They tried and failed to squeeze Mrs. Alvin T. Hert, Vice Chairman of the Republican National Committee, into the Hoover Cabinet as Secretary of the Interior. Kentucky's Republican Senator Frederic Moseley Sackett Jr. produced a candidate for Solicitor General, then one for Assistant Attorney General, but both offices went to other men. Kentucky's patronage demands de-scended to an appeal to President Hoover to appoint a Negro physician of Lexington as Minister to Liberia...
...often and knew just what was needed. Filled with a renewed scorn for the intelligence of "fool tourists", he clattered on his way, while the Vagabond said good-by to the trout widow and likewise resumed his, resolved to buy at least a dozen tickets the next time the solicitor for the postman's ball comes around...
...note at the dinner was the presence of Chief Justice Taft who attended his first Gridiron party 40 years ago as Solicitor-General. Since his elevation to the Supreme Court, however, the Chief Justice has shunned such horseplaying performances lest the dignity of his court be impaired. This year he not only attended (presumably on assurances that the Supreme Court would be omitted from the fun-making), but also made a speech to the 400 guests which, under the rules of the club, may not be reported...
...Washington, as a moral offset to the anti-Five & Ten legal committees, steps were taken to organize a "Bar of the United States," composed of lawyers in Federal practice pledged to all law enforcement including Prohibition. Charles William Freeman headed the organizing committee, with William R. Vallance, Assistant Solicitor of the Department of State and president of the Federal Bar Association, as chief assistant. Only "earnest advocates" of law enforcement are eligible, though on Prohibition, "personal beliefs" would not be considered...