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James M. Beck, Solicitor General of the U. S.: "Speaking before the Hall of Gray's Inn, London, I hailed the U. S. Supreme Court as 'a great lighthouse standing firm even when furious storms of discontent lash the national waters.' Lord Justice Adkins, who presided, mentioned the Court's one-hour time limit for counsels' speeches, and said he had known great English advocates who would find an hour insufficient to get within speaking distance of the real point. Much laughter greeted this sally...
Word sped around town that the guilty Negro was under arrest. A crowd began to gather before the jail. By midnight it numbered nearly 2,000 and became threatening. Solicitor General Hartridge, from the steps of the jail, ordered the crowd to disperse, declaring that the authorities were determined to protect the prisoner. The crowd grumbled and remained. The police were powerless to disperse it. The crowd appeared ready to rush the jail. Sheriff Dixon, revolver in hand, commanded firemen to turn their hoses into the mob. Half a dozen streams of water shot out. The crowd returned fire with...
...they may work as a team instead of separately or antagonistically. Neither is it as a whole a body of nobodies and underlings, for all its roster of assistants, even to the fourth power. It includes such men as Dwight W. Davis (Assistant Secretary of War), James M. Beck (Solicitor General), Theodore Roosevelt (Assistant Secretary of the Navy), A. T. Seymour (Acting Attorney-General...
...GREAT GRANDMOTHER?G. A. Birmingham?Bobbs Merrill ($2.00). It isn't as good as Spanish Gold or Lalage's Trovers. Nor does the inimitable J. J. Meldon appear in it? though one of the principal characters, an Irish solicitor named Royce, bears a pleasant family resemblance to him in speech and ways. But, nevertheless, this slight and smiling tale of the adventures of Basil Price, private secretary to Lord Edmund Troyte, will serve the average reader as an acceptably mild antidote for mental fatigue. The hero first tries to get the fishing rights of an Irish salmon-stream...
...answer to a question, Mr. Baldwin said that in 1921 and 1922 the Attorney General received about $112,000 in fees in addition to a salary of $33,000, and the Solicitor General received $45,000 in fees and a salary of $28,000. Mr. Baldwin said that it was an exceptional year and that the fees had averaged during the past ten years $64,000 for the Attorney General and $40,000 for the Solicitor General...