Word: wideman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wideman. For "impelling business reasons," Francis James Wideman of West Palm Beach sent the President his resignation as Assistant Attorney General. With the resignation went a memorandum from Attorney General Cummings pointing out that Mr. Wideman had won ten of the eleven cases he argued last year before the Supreme Court. Although the case which he lost was the AAA decision, there came back a note: "This record of Wideman is grand! Congratulate...
Jackson. To take Mr. Wideman's place, Attorney General Cummings snaffled one of the brightest of the New Deal's young lawyers from the Treasury Department: Robert Houghwout Jackson, the Bureau of Internal Revenue's Assistant General Counsel. Rated the No. 1 prosecutor of the Bureau of Internal Revenue, this Jamestown, N. Y. attorney had personal charge of the Government's attempt to collect $3,000,000 of additional taxes from Andrew William Mellon (TIME, April 15 et ante...
...contactman in Germany, he revealed, was his son James Wideman Lee II. Princeton, 1929, recalls "Jim" Lee as a tall, personable youth who helped edit the Daily Princetonian. Now 28, he is paid $33,000 a year for handing his father's counsel and significant U. S. newspaper clippings to I. G. Farbenindustrie, which hands them on to the German Government...
Unlimited class: Gridley Barrows '34 defeated Wideman (N), by a fall. Time...
...Louisville Courier-Journal man whom Ivy Lee rented out to Banker Melvin Alvah Traylor for the latter's effort to get the Democratic nomination last year; Joseph Ripley, onetime editor of the tradepaper American Press in which he wrote a flattering interview with Mr. Lee in 1926; James Wideman Lee II, 26, elder son, who has been working for his father since graduation from Princeton four years ago (absent last week in Europe); and Ivy Ledbetter Lee Jr., 24, graduated from Princeton last year...