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Years ago, when asked by an English solicitor at St. John's to tell him what there is in botany to interest a man, I explained certain of the inter-relations of botany and geology, only to receive the astounding reply: "Why, Sir, do you not realize that you are prying into the secrets of the Creator?" Again, when visiting my home-village in Maine, I was seriously upbraided by a former schoolmate for my apparent disloyalty to the United States, which seemed evident to him because I was working on scientific problems connected with foreign countries...
Office of the Solicitor-General Washington...
...Snow covered the rear grounds of the White House one morning last week. Out through the falling flakes ran President Hoover. Behind him trotted Secretaries Wilbur and Hyde, Solicitor-General Hughes, Farm Board Chairman Legge, six others. When they came to their level, shrub-guarded playground behind the White House, they briskly began passing their 8-lb. medicine ball back and forth. They kept it up for a half-hour, then walked back to the White House to have their morning coffee indoors instead of out for the first time this year. Thus came Winter to Washington...
...This post is not to be confused with that of Solicitor for the Commission, now filled by Charles A. Russell, whose recent opinion that power company stocks are being watered to make their eventual recapture by the Government unduly expensive (TIME, Sept. 2), has aroused a storm of protest among public utilitarians...
When a careful man builds his house, he itemizes his actual expenditures-so much for land, so much for lumber, for brick, for cement, for hardware & plumbing. Last fortnight the Federal Power Commission, through its Solicitor Charles A. Russell, ordered power companies seeking U. S. licenses to construct plants along navigable U. S. streams, to exercise the same care and precision in estimating their construction costs. Reason: the U. S. has an option to buy back such licensed plants after 50 years and it refuses to pay an excessive price for them. The Russell ruling is designed to squeeze "water...