Word: wickershamed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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George W. Wickersham, Attorney General under President Taft, was scheduled to speak in Michigan University's Hill Auditorium, Nov. 2, on the League of Nations. The Board of Regents then remembered that when Arthur Hill gave Michigan the auditorium, he stipulated in the deed that it should never house " a partisan or political discussion." Interpreting Mr. Wickersham's topic as political, the Board announced that Mr. Wickersham would be obliged to seek another rostrum. This announcement was echoed by the Secretary of the University, who closed the doors of all buildings on his campus to Mr. Wickersham...
...Wickersham: No comment...
...addition they invited Republicans Charles D. Hilles, Nicholas Murray Butler, George W. Wickersham and many of their friends...
...results of the first round of matches played yesterday on Jarvis Field follow: L. A. Weisman '26 defeated Kenneth Ward, 2G.B., 6-3, 6-1; J. B. Williams, 1G.B., won by default from T. R. Wickersham '26; J. R. Wood '25 defeated Austin Wood '26, 6-0, 6-2; C. Grayson '27 defeated M. Goldstein '26, 6-1, 6-1; H. C. Havighurst 1L., won by default from C. M. Hastings '25; A. R. Allen Jr. '26 defeated L. F. Holmes, 8-6, 6-0; K. C. Black '24 defeated G. K. Bell...
Advocacy of American participation in the World Court was entrusted to George W. Wickersham, Attorney General under President Taft. Despite some slight objection on the ground that it was a political question, Mr. Wickersham succeeded in carrying a motion endorsing the World Court. The motion implied that most Americans favored it. Lord Birkenhead made no reference to politics, except to intimate that in England the prestige of royalty was increasing and that of the Socialist party was diminishing...