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...Greene was Frank Charles Partridge of Proctor, Vt. Senator-designate Partridge, 69, president of Vermont Marble Co., started as a page in the State Senate, was president of his Amherst class (1882, thirteen years before Calvin Coolidge), studied law at Columbia, served the U. S. State Department as its solicitor (1890-93). He has held minor diplomatic and consular jobs. Coincident with the Partridge appointment a general Senate election was ordered for Vermont on March 31, preceded by a party primary March...
...after a long lapse of years. Pennsylvania's Wet Representative Beck, onetime Solicitor General, recalled, however, that "nearly 25 years after the enactment of the Missouri Compromise, the Supreme Court in the Dred Scott case finally concluded it was invalid." Judge Clark anticipated his critics with an analysis of all the other amendments in an effort to prove that the 18th constituted such a large and extraordinary a grant of power as to differentiate it from all others. But a Supreme Court opinion often cited last week to show the weight of custom in legislative ratification: "A long acquiescence...
Novelist, playwright, journalist extraordinary, Enoch Arnold Bennett, 63, is the most versatile, one of the most prolific living English writers. He has published over 50 books, more than a dozen plays. Born poor, he got little schooling, went to London at 21, became a solicitor's clerk. His first published piece was How a Bill of Costs is Drawn Up; his second appeared in the late great Yellow Book. Says he: ''I write for money." He makes a good income. Some of his books: Clayhanger (pr. "Clanger"), The Old Wives' Tale, Mr. Prohack, Riceyman Steps, The Grand Babylon Hotel, Milestones...
...President Hoover complained that "no single inquiry was made [by the World] at the Department of the Interior as to the facts." The World replied: Of course not, because the man to whom such inquiry would surely be referred is Edward C. Finney, now the Department's solicitor, formerly (1921-29) Assistant Secretary, the man who saw nothing wrong when the Elk Hills and Teapot Dome scandals were in the making, the man most directly attacked by the Kelley charges. In 1928, Mr. Finney wrote the basic decision which Kelley protested as nullifying the "discovery" provision...
Rolling, puffing his famous long cigar (he did not chew on it), Censor Smith graduated to Solicitor-General, then Attorney-General, becoming meanwhile Sir Frederick Smith, Bart. One evening, after the election of 1918, he was asked by Prime Minister David Lloyd George to make the most momentous decision of his life, given only until morning to decide: Would he or would he not accept the supreme judicial office of Lord High Chancellor, sit upon the sacred woolsack...