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...Protestant; 3) a Dry in whom Drys had complete confidence. Such a man was hard to find. In 1925 Secretary of State Kellogg and Associate Justice Pierce Butler of the U. S. Supreme Court had whispered in the ear of President Coolidge the name of William De Witt Mitchell for Solicitor General to succeed James Montgomery Beck. So great and good an impression had Mr. Mitchell as the Government's chief advocate made upon the Supreme Court that its members were not backward in whispering his name again, this time into the ear of President-Elect Hoover, this time...
...into such crannies of knowledge is the habit of the American Historical Society. The members met last week at Duke University (Durham, N. C.). Their president for 1930: Japan-born Evarts Boutell Greene, De Witt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia, eminent authority on colonial times, author (Provincial America, Government of Illinois...
...each 15? package of 20 cigarets is gummed a blue Internal Revenue stamp with De Witt Clinton's face upon it. That stamp costs the purchaser 6?. From the other 9? the retailer, the wholesaler and the manufacturer deduct their profits. For the actual tobacco in the 20 cigarets the grower receives between...
...Parker '30, C. C. Perry '30, K. A. Perry '30, G. E. Ray '32, H. N. Roberts 4E.S., S. C. Robinson '30, John deRoode '33, F. W. Stetson '30, De Witt Stetten Jr. '30, G. A. Thow ocC, R. R. Walcott '31, C. H. Watson '30, R. S. Watson '32, F. V. Weeks '30, E. E. Wendell '32, Cyrus Wood '32, H. deW. Wood '30, L. D. Wood '31, M. W. Ware '02 as graduate secretary...
...long time since trust-busting was a front-page activity of the U. S. Government. Last week, however, three potent U. S. corporations found themselves involved in anti-trust proceedings. Attorney General William De Witt Mitchell filed suit against Warner Brothers and William Fox and announced a general investigation of the pooled patents held by Radio Corp. of America. This announcement closely followed a ruling in which the U. S. District Court in Wilmington, Delaware, declared that Radio Corp. was following monopolistic practices in its licensing policy...