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...hurt, if they are hurt at all. It doesn't amount to anything. . . . "Now is the time for cool heads, considerate counsel and help by all." A few of the candidates put forward by prognosticators as "possible successors" to Mr. Daugherty: JAMES M. BECK, of Pennsylvania, U. S. Solicitor General...
...special article in the Hearst press, the Hon. James M. Beck, Solicitor General of the U. S., compared and contrasted the Supreme Court of the United States and England's Privy Council. These are the two leading tribunals of the civilized world. Mr. Beck, who won a case before the Privy Council last Summer, is said to have been the first American jurist to appear before Great Britain's highest judicial tribunal. He was compelled to wear a gown...
About the time Senator Brookhart was describing the painful poverty of Iowa farmers, Publisher Pierce sent a solicitor to Chicago and New York to renew advertising contracts. " Ah," said the advertisers, " if the farmers of Iowa are broke, it will not pay to advertise in your paper!" Senator Brookhart, reported as strong as ever, is up for re-election next year, but Publisher Pierce is said to be not so enthusiastic...
...born in Paris and was educated in English schools. His father was a solicitor. He attended Heidelberg, and took his degree in medicine at St. Thomas's Hospital, Lambeth. His plays have been produced with varying success. Both as a dramatist and novelist he possesses, it seems to me, two distinct qualities: a feeling for the sweep and power of dramatic passion and an ability to analyze it- always cynically. It was interesting to watch him the other evening with Charlie Chaplin-Chaplin, mobile, eager, gay, as vivid as a flame and as naive as Peter Pan, yet somehow...
Married. William Rose Benet, poet, one of the editors of The Literary Review (New York) to Mrs. Elinor Hoyt Hichborn Wylie, poet, author of Black Armour. Daughter of the late Henry M. Hoyt, Solicitor General under President Taft, she married in 1906 Philip S. Hichborn, lawyer and writer. After his death she married, in 1916,. Horace Wylie, whom she divorced last Spring, charging nonsupport...