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...replied, "All right" and ran away. Next day Manuel Jesus Roure threatened to sue. charging that Bishop Manning had backed Rector Dodd because both were attempting to make All Souls' "an Anglo-Catholic communion." Indicated as a possible lawyer for the vestry was Low Churchman George Woodward Wickersham...
Among those included in the group are Charles Francis Adams '88, Secretary of the Navy; Ogden L. Mills '04, Secretary of the Treasury; Dwight F. Davis '00, former secretary of War; G. W. Wickersham, former Attorney General of the United States; Learned Hand '93, Justice of the U. S. Circuit Court; and William R. Castle '00, Under-Secretary of State; Owen D. Young, chairman of the board of the General Electric Company; Walter Lippmann '10, editor and author, Richard Whitney '11, president of the New York Stock Exchange, and Mark Sullivan '00, author...
...Republican State Senator Samuel Hofstadter, for the Supreme Court bench began to bear fruit for the Democrats last week. Republican State Chairman Kingsland Macy, shocked and resentful, denounced the deal as "an unspeakable idea." The Association of the Bar of the City of New York, led by George Woodward Wickersham, flayed Senator Hofstadter as "unfit to hold judicial office" and got busy trying to frame an independent ticket. One item of the deal was that city Republicans were not to fuse with independent Democrats to beat Tammany but were to nominate a flabby figure of their own who could...
...large, serious Jesse Frederick Essary, for 20 years chief of the Baltimore Sun's bureau at the capital. Correspondent Essary's prize-winning article, published March 5, 1931, was cited for "reportorial skill and industry in bringing to light the hitherto unknown facts and circumstances of the Wickersham Commission's exhaustive report on Prohibition." Honorably mentioned for their work were Charles Griffith Ross (St. Louis Post-Dispatch), Walker Showers Buel (Cleveland Plain Dealer), Ashmun Norris Brown (Providence Journal), Harry W. Frantz (United Press), Drew Pearson (Baltimore Sun), John Snure Jr. (Washington Times...
Judge William Irwin Grubb of Birmingham, Ala., member of Wickersham Commission LL.D...