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Engaged. Amanda Stewart Bryan, daughter of Publisher John Stewart Bryan of the Richmond, Va. News-Leader; and Richmond Keith Kane, Manhattan lawyer (Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft), onetime (1921) Harvard football captain, Harvard, Oxford oarsman...
...Cullen Bryant in 1847 to promote "the advancement of art and literature," the Century selects members on the basis of cultural superiority. Its atmosphere of wealthy exclusiveness is matched only by its reputation for eminent respectability. Famed among its members are Herbert Clark Hoover, John Pierpont Morgan, George Woodward Wickersham, William Howard Taft, John William Davis, Henry Lewis Stimson. Cornelius Vanderbilt, Thomas William Lamont, Dwight Whitney Morrow, Owen D. Young, Elihu Root, Nicholas Murray Butler, Bishop William Thomas Manning...
...This is important information, if true. I want to call it to the attention of Mr. George Woodward Wickersham, chairman of the President's Law Enforcement Commission and I hope' he will be ready to advise us how to stop these violations of the liquor law at the Century Club...
...President receives abundant advice. Last week Missouri's representative Leonidas Carstarphen Dyer, No. 2 Republican member of the House Judiciary Committee, urged the President to declare for 2.75% beer as a Prohibition solution. The President shunted beer to the deep-bottomed repository of the Wickersham committee...
Judge-Connnissioners. Attorney General Mitchell gave his approval to the Wickersham recommendation that U. S. Commissioners be empowered to try minor dry offenses. This suggestion raised the largest objection in Congress where many doubted its constitutionality. Wet Congressmen complained that it would deprive citizens of the right of trial by jury, that petty offenders would have either to plead guilty to a misdemeanor before a U. S. Commissioner, or, if demanding a jury trial, run the risk of a felony conviction under the Jones Law. Attorney General Mitchell called this proposal the Commission's "most important and constructive suggestion...