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Meanwhile Nebraska's Senator Norris and North Dakota's Senator Nye demanded the dismissal of Secretary Bonner, charged him with being a "power man trying to cripple the commission so that it cannot inquire into these steals."
Judge Thacher's appointment as solicitor general was likely to receive the same pawing at the hands of the Senate as Charles Evans Hughes's for chief justice, ard for about the same reasons. Because of personal holdings in public utilities, he had, as a U. S. judge, declined to...
In 1927 one Samuel S. Wyer investigated the government-operated hydroelectric power system in Ontario, concluded that it was not so good as it had been pictured by those in the U. S. favoring the same system. The Smithsonian Institution naively issued the Wyer report as one of its official...
Last week saw the beginning of a significant movement in the Senate for another Prohibition investigation. Unlike others, it was sponsored by Drys. Its proponents were Nebraska's Senator Norris, Idaho's Senator Borah, Montana's Senator Wheeler, Iowa's Senator Brookhart. Senator Norris, as chairman of the Senate Judiciary...
But this oath meant little to the critics of the Supreme Court. Washington's Senator Dill, who had shouted that Abraham Lincoln would have had no chance of appointment today as Chief Justice because he would be rated a "radical,''* warned that the people would find a...