Word: solicitors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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During the war, Professor Higgins, who is, in addition, an honorary Fellow of Downing College, Cambridge, was advisor in International Law and Prize Law in the departments of the British Procurator General and Treasury Solicitor. During the Peace Conference of 1919-20, he was advisor on International Law to the English Admirality...
...Author. Newton D. Baker, 54, West Virginian by birth, educated at Johns Hopkins, was City Solicitor and Mayor of Cleveland through a stirring municipal upheaval and Secretary of War during the Great War. He is short of stature,slim, dark, shell-spectacled. His resemblance to Charles Lamb, Voltaire and Mephistopheles is amusing; but his eyes, if not finer, are more kindly than Satan's. He works all day and reads all night in law and literature. His garden abuts upon a golf course; but on Saturday (summer) afternoons he weeds, unperturbed by the passing of derisive foursomes...
...number of salary increases in the Internal Revenue Bureau were made. Sometimes the Treasury has been obliged to send $4,000-a-year men into court to fight lawyers receiving $50,000 for a single case. The Solicitor of Internal Revenue was made "General Counsel" with a salary of $10,000 instead of $6,000. The salaries of members of the Board of Tax Appeals were likewise increased from...
Last week an article by Professor Irving Fisher of Yale, calling upon America to "back up the President" and join the World Court was published; today are printed the critical arguments of another Yale professor. Counsel for Permanent Tacna-Africa Arbitration, and a former Assistant Solicitor in the Department of State, Professor Edwin M. Borchard of the Yale Law School analyzes the World Court and attempts to refute the arguments of the proponents of American adherence. The article, published by courtesy of the Yale news, follows...
Charles MacVeagh was born at West Chester, Pa., in 1860, and graduated from Harvard in 1881. Since 1883 he has been a lawyer in Manhattan; since 1901, General Solicitor of the U. S. Steel Corporation. He is a member of the law firm of which John W Davis is a member...