Word: solicitor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dixon appointment caused job-shuffling in Secretary Ray Lyman Wilbur's department. Edward Clingan Finney, chief (though passive) subordinate of Albert Bacon Fall and Hubert Work in the leasing and releasing of Teapot Dome, Elk Hills and Salt Creek oil fields, was demoted to the post of Solicitor. Ernest Odell Patterson, who as Solicitor wrote the opinions upholding the Salt Creek contracts with Oilman Sinclair, was removed...
...England's most famous Lord Chancellors and the third great Chancellor in England's judicial history to systematize Equity. He and Chancellor Kent of New York, are the great figures in Equity of modern times. The Earle of Eldon, born in 1751, was from 1788 until 1827 successively solicitor general, attorney general. Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, and Lord Chancellor. The bust which has just been secured was made during his long term as Lord Chancellor from...
...Mitchell went to the Spanish-American war, as half-engineer, half-lawyer. He trained at Camp Zachary Taylor for the World War. In 1925 Justice Butler whispered the Mitchell name into the Coolidge ear and-presto!-Mr. Mitchell found himself Solicitor-General of the U. S. Such a good impression did he make as the Government's advocate before the U. S. Supreme Court that the Justices broadly hinted to President Hoover that he would be overlooking a good bet if he did not utilize the Mitchell legal talents in a top-notch of his Cabinet...
...learned yesterday that Dr. Edward Cyril Wynne '17 has resigned his post as instructor in the Department of Government in the University to take over a position in the State Department at Washington. He will leave tomorrow night and assume his new position as Assistant Solicitor in the Immigration Office immediately on Monday morning...
...soon as the legality of the exchange has been verified by P. J. Nelligan, City Solicitor, Harvard will assume ownership of the Holmes Place, the vacant lot in front of Austin Hall, and Cambridge will take over the triangle between Broadway and Cambridge Street, it was announced yesterday at the Mayor's Office. The Holmes Place is now city territory, while on the present University property, where the City plans to erect a fire station, stands the Rogers Building, which was the old Germanic Museum and is now a store house and carpentry shop...