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...Solicitor General of the U. S., at 44 Governor of the Philippines; at 47 Theodore Roosevelt, Harvard '80, who loved "Will" Taft well enough to let him snooze in the strenuous Rooseveltian presence, took him into his cabinet as Secretary of War, groomed him for the Presidency...
...Department of Justice is the Solicitor General, chief counsel for the Government, prime defender of the Constitution before the bar of the Supreme Court. To succeed Charles Evans Hughes Jr., resigned, in this post President Hoover surprisingly picked a man no one had thought of. He was Thomas Day Thacher, a judge of the U. S. District Court in Manhattan...
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 hear the case of Federal Trade Commission v. Electric Bond & Share. Chairman Norris of the Senate Judiciary Committee, who led the attack on Chief Justice Hughes, announced that his committee would investigate the Thacher appointment in the light of information that, as a onetime member of Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett...
...carried to the Supreme Court: Victor Talking Machine Co., Beechnut Packing Co., Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Co., Aetna Insurance Co., Swift & Co., De Forest Radio, U. S. Industrial Chemical Co.. Anaconda Copper Mining Co., Wabash R. R., General Electric Co. When his son Charles Evans Hughes Jr. became Solicitor General of the U. S. last year, Mr. Hughes Sr. dropped all cases in which the U. S. was his opponent...
...Hughes Jr. resigned from the firm when President Hoover last year made him Solicitor General of the U. S. He promptly retired from that post when his father was named Chief Justice. *Walter F. ("Dutch") Carter, Mr. Hughes's brother-in-law, famed oldtime Yale baseball pitcher, partner in Hughes, Schurman & Dwight, was last week named a director of the Brooklyn Baseball Club ("Robins") by John A. Heydler, National League president...