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James M. Beck of Washington, Solicitor General...
...outstanding addresses were undoubtedly those of President Cromwell of the Stock Exchange and James M. Beck, U. S. Solicitor General, the former a fighting speech against political meddling with business, the latter a solemn warning of the evil tendencies in politics and government today. A Baltimore banker was simultaneously cheered and hissed for a smashing attack on the Volstead Act; the connection of this subject with the business of banking was not made clear...
...this act he has been both reviled and admired. Lord Birkenhead's legal career started at Gray's Inn, of which legal establishment he is now a Bencher. He became a King's Counsellor, or to use legal phraseology, he took silk, in 1908. In 1915 he became Solicitor General and in the same year was appointed Attorney General, a post which he held until 1919, when he was appointed to the Woolsack in the House of Lords as Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain. This is the highest legal post obtainable in the Empire and superior to that...
Died. Baroness Constance Hoyt von Stumm, wife of Baron Ferdinand von Stumm, in Bavaria, suddenly. She was a daughter of the later Henry Martyn Hoyt, Solicitor General during President Taft's Administration, and a sister of Mrs. Elinor Wylie, poet. Henry Martyn Hoyt, sometime Governor of Pennsylvania, was her grandfather; Morton McMichael, former Mayor of Philadelphia, her great-grandfather...
...Supreme Court of Ontario to recover lands and buildings valued at $376,496.89. The case was carried up on appeal to the British Privy Council. Because the United States was the appellant, the bar of England suspended all rules governing admission in order that James M. Beck, Solicitor General of the U. S., might appear before the highest tribunal of the British Empire. Mr. Beck's argument was the first ever presented by a foreigner to the Privy Council. The claim was allowed...