Word: strawn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...delegation is headed by Silas H. Strawn, famed Chicago lawyer, and John Van A. MacMurray, U. S. Minister to China...
John Van A. McMurray, U. S. Minister, was advised that his fellow delegate, Lawyer Silas Strawn of Chicago, had completed his conferences with Washington officials, was about to leave for Peking accompanied by innumerable papers and experts...
...representatives will be Minister MacMurray and Silas Strawn, famed Chicago lawyer, who was once very nearly appointed Attorney General by President Coolidge. On these two will rest the greatest burden of steering a middle course. For they will have U. S. citizens to protect, and the facts of the Chinese situation to face as well as the demands of the powers who would like a great number of desirable things which probably are not obtainable...
...Senate received, and referred to the Judiciary Committee, the nomination of Attorney General Stone for Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court, vice Joseph McKenna, resigned. Speculation as to whom the President would now draft into his Cabinet vice Stone, lingered longest on Attorney Silas Strawn, of Chicago; on James M. Beck, U. S. Solicitor-General...
...SILAS H. STRAWN, of Illinois, onetime President Illinois Bar Association...