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After practicing law locally with West Virginia coal men for his clients, John William Davis became internationally famed. He went to Congress for four years, then was U. S. Solicitor General, then went to the Court of St. James's as U. S. Ambassador (1918-21). Guy Despard Goff, meantime, did not rise beyond a district attorney's office until the Harding regime, when he became Harry Micajah Daugherty's Assistant Attorney General. He only reached the U. S. Senate in 1925. By that time John William Davis, his younger fellow-townsman, was foremost Democrat...
Married. Estelle Winwood, 45, famed actress (Why Marry?, Too Many Husbands, The Taming of the Shrew, The Furies, etc.); to Francis B. Bradley, marine solicitor; in Manhattan...
...Cave, and being, doubtless aware of his critical condition, promptly elevated him to the rank of Earl. His charm, straightforwardness, and singularly active common sense were recalled as men ran over a few of the great offices which he has held: Attorney General to Edward of Wales (1914-15), Solicitor General (1915-16), Home Secretary (1916-19) and, since 1924, Lord High Chancellor...
...Mitchell, Solicitor General of the United States, and R. M. Hutchins, Dean of the Yale Law School, will be guests of honor at the annual dinner of the Law Review Board, to be held at the Harvard Club of Boston tonight at 7 o'clock. All of the members of the Faculty of the Law School have been invited to the dinner, most of whom have accepted...
...Mitchell, in addition to his position as Solicitor General, to which he was appointed in 1925 by President Coolidge, is a member of the Central Committee, counselor for the American Red Cross, and a member of the American Bar Association, the Spanish War Veterans, and the American Legion...