Word: vermont
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week Thomas Walter Swan, Dean of the Yale Law School since 1916, announced that he would accept President Coolidge's appointment as Judge of the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Second District (Connecticut, New York, Vermont). He succeeds the late Henry Wade Rogers, who was Dean of Law at Yale (1903-16) until his own appointment as judge. The Second Circuit Court happens also to be the part-time seat of another one- time distinguished Dean of Law, Supreme Court Associate Justice Stone (Columbia University, 1910-24), assigned as Supreme Court Justice to that territory...
...John Weeks, who says his wife will be a great help to him in running the affairs of Vermont, offered prayer before proceeding with his inaugural address last week...
...know much about politics (cheers) but I do know something about my native state (more cheers) so when I address you on a question of injury to the welfare of that state, I speak with the tongue of authority, the voice of one crying about his own wilderness. Vermont, ladies and gentlemen, is an old state. It is a noble state...
...ladies and gentlemen, Vermont has as good mountains as any other state. So when the President of this country, Calvin Coolidge, cannot find a mountain in Vermont good enough to bear his name, I scruple at his right to continue as manager of the only silent spokesman, official or otherwise, ever heretofore allowed to parade the White House Grounds...
...wrong. Mr. Coolidge may be perfectly willing to have a mountain named after him, even a small mountain. I can only believe the press. (Grace and I were never confidential although we both have spent our lives in or near Vermont.) But the press reports that there isn't a mountain high enough for such honor. I would amend that to say, didn't fear a war with the vested interests, that there isn't a mountain low enough...