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...decide about letting Sinclair exercise his Salt Creek option. Besides the Senate's investigation, the trial of Sinclair for criminal conspiracy was then fresh in Washington's mind. Sinclair's was an extraordinary name indeed, but Dr. Work took no extraordinary precautions. He simply asked the Solicitor of the Interior Department if he thought Sinclair's option was valid. Solicitor Ernest Odell Patterson said he thought...
Goat? Where there are "villains," there is likely to be a "goat." Hard though the thing was on Dr. Work, danger as well as pain threatened the man to whom Dr. Work pointed as the author of his error-Solicitor Ernest Odell Patterson of the Interior Department, the one lawyer whose opinion Dr. Work sought in renewing Sinclair's lease. Dr. Work is, or was, a bland, trusting, optimistic soul, full of cheery conversation and good spirits. Solicitor Patterson was his own choice. He had him appointed in 1926 by President Coolidge-a typical smalltown lawyer-politician from...
...newspaper, the Cincinnati Times. Another publisher paid $25 per week to alienate his services. He shared first honors in his class at law school, practiced with his father and got on quickly-assistant prosecuting attorney, judge of the Superior Court. He was only 33 when President Harrison made him Solicitor-General...
Well aware that the best method of dealing with a shrew is to put her in the water, one George Hall, Manhattan insurance solicitor, was accustomed, when circumstances permitted, to soak Madeleine La Verne Hall, his wife. Last week, suing George Hall for a separation, she specified this practice as an example of his alleged cruelty. Sic: "Accompanying his actions by violent language, he threw the plaintiff, fully dressed, into the bathtub and turned on the shower, drenching her, and thereby endangering her health...
...majesty King Albert of the Belgians appeared as a petitioner by proxy, last week, before the august British Courts of Chancery. Humbly the Royal Petition was handed up by Solicitor Arthur Trowbridge Keeling. His Majesty besought that the Courts would now distribute the ?173,824 ($844,785) English estate of his late aunt, the Empress Charlotte of Mexico, to her heirs, of whom His Majesty...