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...Cruise. Last week the French Line announced a six-week post-graduate law cruise this summer aboard its France, open to all members of the bar. There will be a staff of 13 lecturers headed by Representative James Montgomery Beck, one-time Solicitor General of the U. S. who was last week arguing New Jersey water rights in the U. S. Supreme Court...
...City's corporation counsel and an assistant attorney general of the State. Chief Justice Hughes withdrew from the case because he had once done legal work on the city's water program. Of counsel for New Jersey was U. S. Representative James Montgomery Beck of Pennsylvania. This one-time Solicitor General of the U. S. whose right to a House seat was questioned because his domicile was in Washington, not Philadelphia, used to spend summers at Sea Bright, N. J. He argued that New York City should get its water from the Hudson River valley, good for another 100 years...
...popular, prolific British novelist, playwright and essayist (The Old Wives' Tale, Hilda Lessways, Lord Raingo, Imperial Palace, etc., etc.); of typhoid fever (first diagnosed as influenza), after failing to rally from a blood transfusion; in London. Born of a British middle-class family, he studied law, became a solicitor's clerk, then an editor of Woman (weekly). He free-lanced for many a journal until his literary output brought him riches, made him one of Britain's four wealthiest writers (the others are Shaw, Barrie, Wells). Thereafter he lived in Europe's grandest hotels, bought himself a yacht, moved...
...Solicitor General of the U. S.?Thomas Day Thacher...
Born in Ohio, Mr. Ballantine was graduated from Harvard ('04). practiced law in Boston. During the War he became a special legal adviser to the Treasury on the collection of War taxes, later served as solicitor of the Bureau of Internal Revenue. Always interested in the legalistic intricacies of taxation, he did special work for the Joint Congressional Committee on Internal Revenue. He is now a member of the famed Manhattan law firm of [Elihu] Root, Clark, Buckner, Howland & Ballantine, specializing in public service and business organization law. For recreation he writes scholarly articles on taxation for law reviews, plays...