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...ascended to California's Supreme Bench. In 1922 he became Chief Justice. Then, after the Denby trouble, when President Coolidge was at a loss for a man to put in as Secretary of the Navy, a state-loyal California newshawk sent in the name of Curtis Dwight Wilbur???"Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of California." On paper it looked magnificent, and Calvin Coolidge had not then been President long enough to know how magnificent paper can make some things and people look...
...John W. Davis, Carter Glass, Newton D. Baker?who would be willing, but who, for reasons chiefly political, would not perfectly fit. Ironically enough, some of them were "too close to Wil- son." Outside of politics there are Edward W. Bok, a publicist, A. Lawrence Lowell, Ray Lyman Wilbur???but none of national proportions?none except the rugged, unassuming, eloquent bachelor of Youngstown, Ohio. Certainly ex-Justice Clarke never expected the honor. A year and a half ago when he retired from the bench he declared that he was too old to aspire to leadership of so great a cause...
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