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...Passed (53-31) the Tariff Bill (see p. 15). ¶ Adopted a resolution authorizing payments of $25,000 each to Senators-Reject William Scott Vare and William Bauchop Wilson of Pennsylvania to cover costs of their election contest. ¶ Confirmed the nomination of Judge Thomas Day Thacher of New York as U. S. Solicitor General...
...test was completely exhibited in the Judiciary Committee's handling of the nomination of Thomas Day Thacher to be Solicitor General of the U. S. Idaho's Senator Borah asked Mr. Thacher if he owned any public utility stock. Mr. Thacher submitted a list of his holdings: 100 shares American & Foreign Power Corp.; 55 shares of Baltimore's Consolidated Gas & Electric; 100 shares Electric Power & Light Corp.; 400 shares National Power & Light Co. Judiciary Committee Chairman Norris wrote Nominee Thacher: "In the judgment of the committee you ought to divest yourself of the securities mentioned." Mr. Thacher...
What was surprising about Judge Thacher's acceptance was that his judgeship was a life office. Relatively young, wealthy, Judge Thacher had been tempted away from judicial security by the prospect of more lively and strenuous action before the Supreme Court...
Born in Tenafly, N. J., in 1881, Judge Thacher went to Taft School, was graduated from Yale in 1904, from the Yale Law School in 1906. In 1907 he was ap pointed Assistant U. S. District Attorney in Manhattan. He joined his father's firm, Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett, of which Ambassador Dwight Whitney Mor row was once a member. He had many large corporations among his clients, de fended the directors of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad in 1915 when they were charged with trying to monopolize New England commerce, was attorney for the "Terra Cotta Trust...
...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...