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...Hoover, Japanese Ambassador & Madame Katsuji Debuchi, Germany's elegant Ambassador Friedrich W. von Prittwitz und Gaffron, Sweden's Wollmar Bostroem, China's Sao-Ke Alfred Sze, Greece's Charalambos Simopoulos, U. S. Secretary of State & Mrs. Henry Lewis Stimson, Mrs. Charles Francis Adams, Mrs. William Mitchell, Mrs. Patrick Jay Hurley, Mrs. William M. Jardine, Mrs. Pierce Butler...
...judicial step higher that remains for him. It is well within probability that President Hoover, especially if he is an eight-year President, will have the appointing of the next Chief Justice. There have been ten Chief Justices. Everyone since 1800 has died in office. Eight of them (Jay, Ellsworth, Marshall, Taney, Chase, Waite, Fuller. Taft) were called from outside the Supreme Court...
Only two Chief Justices were promoted from the bench. To one of these, John Rutledge of South Carolina, chosen by President Washington to succeed John Jay, the Senate refused confirmation and he had to resign. Jefferson observed sarcastically to Monroe that Washington's purpose had apparently been "to keep five mouths always gaping for one sugar plum."* But in 1910, when President Taft successfully elevated Edward Douglass White, the precedent was broken...
Immigration. Last week the U. S. Supreme Court set aside the Jay Treaty of 1794-on the ground that the treaty had died in the War of 1812-and declared that aliens resident in Canada or naturalized Canadians could not under the 1924 U. S. Immigration Act commute across the U. S. border to daily work. Minister Massey had protested to the U. S. on this interpretation, originally made by the Labor Department, on the ground that it goes behind Canada's citizenship laws, discriminates between native and foreign-born citizens of the Dominion. The Supreme Court...
...Telegraph Corp. should take over Radio's newborn (TIME, April 1) subsidiary, R.C.A. Communications, Inc. So formal and so important was this friendly agreement that it at once was called an ACCORD. A price was mentioned, around $100,000,000. Vice President David Sarnoff of Radio and Nelson Dean Jay of Morgan's Paris house talked details. U. S. directors of both companies hastily met and approved...