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Said George Woodward Wickersham, of the potent law-firm Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft, onetime (1909-13) U. S. Attorney-General: "It is unfortunate that Senator Pepper in the course of his political career...
...following persons and institutions are in favor of Herbert Clark Hoover's nomination: Senators Moses, Gillett, Jones, Shortridge, Edge; Representatives Burton, Fort, Albert Johnson, A. T. Smith; Amelita Galli-Curci, Christopher Morley, Emil Fuchs, Henry Ford, Thomas Alva Edison, Emory R. Buckener, George W. Wickersham, Louis Marshall, Elihu Root Jr., George Eastman; Michael Idvorsky Pupin, Will H. Hays; Secretaries Work, Wilbur, Jardine; Postmaster-General New; Assistant Secretaries Mills, Robinson, Brown; Governors Fuller of Massachusetts, Spaulding of New Hampshire, Green of Michigan, Brewster of Maine; the Hearst...
...Enthusiastic Jew.' Judge Cardoza said I was 'a great civic institution.' My law partner, Samuel Untermyer, called me 'the most prodigious worker I have ever known.' Besides members of my own race, such men as Elihu Root, James W. Wadsworth Jr., Justice Harlan F. Stone, George W. Wickersham and James Weldon Johnson wrote tributes which were published in the current issue, dedicated entirely to me, of The Jewish Tribune. An editorial in that magazine proclaimed me 'the acknowledged leader of American Jewry,' and, like Joshua, who succeeded Moses as the Jews' leader, a 'prince in Israel' who had neither inheritance...
...studies or mature achievements have won them membership in P. B. K.: John W. Davis, Charles E. Hughes, Theodore Roosevelt, Michael Pupin, Owen D. Young, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Louis D. Brandeis, Edward Terry Sanford, Harlan Fiske Stone, Robert Frost, Bernard M. Baruch, Bainbridge Colby, Dwight W. Morrow, George W. Wickersham, Mary E. Woolley...
...four of his U. S. subordinates of "The League of Nations Post of the American Legion, which is to link the greatest peace agency in the world with one of the greatest of fighting-veteran agencies." He helped to make comfortable twelve famed international lawyers, including George W. Wickersham, onetime U. S. Attorney General, who are now engaged as a League Commission upon "investigations looking toward the progressive codification of International Law." Finally, Sir Eric parried the queries of correspondents who persistently tried to get him to admit that the preliminary disarmament conference scheduled for Feb. 15 would be postponed...