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and that he was determined his son Robert should work out his life amid
quested."
those surroundings. Personal
]ohn Marshall Gest, Esq., of Phila
delphia, has been elevated to a vacancy in the Orphans’ Court in Pennsylvania. Hon. E. DeForest Leach of Mounds ville, W. Va., a member of the late Con
gress on Uniform Divorce Laws and a frequent contributor to the Green Bag, has been elected President of the Na tional Divorce Reform Association. The following nominations have been confirmed by the Senate: Frank A. Youmans, United States district judge
In a speech to the St. Louis Law School Alumni Association June 7, Secre
tary Nagel of the Department of Com merce and Labor said: "President Taft has entirely eliminated politics from the United States Supreme Court. He has shown in all his judicial appointments that he considered politics of no moment in the selection of United States judges. He has appointed Republicans and Democrats with utter impartiality, con sidering only fitness. The esteem of the
federal Supreme Court
may be
attributed in great measure to this policy of President Taft.”
for the western district of Arkansas;
John R. McFie, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of New Mexico; Arthur
J. Tuttle, United States Attorney for the eastern district of Michigan. After a fight waged by Southern Senators for more than two months the Senate on June 14 confirmed William H. Lewis, the Boston negro attorney, to be Assistant Attorney-General of the
United States.
Mr. Lewis is a graduate
of Amherst College and Harvard Law School, and at Amherst was football captain and class orator. He was a
member of the Massachusetts legisla ture in 1902.
For the nomination of Justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court to succeed Chief Justice Joseph A. Breaux, the retiring Chief Justice, Attorney-General Walter Guion, Judge L. F. Caillouet of the Court of Appeals and Edward N. Pugh have already offered themselves as candidates. These announcements are deemed encouraging by the New Orleans Times-Democrat, “as showing
that the elective system of choosing our judiciary does not, as its opponents pre
dicted, drive away able and capable men, and put a premium on dema gogues, and that the primary is now inviting candidates of merit and of the
President Taft, speaking before the
Commercial Club of Cincinnati June 19, lightly referred to the possibility of "going back to a less active life," away from the Presidency, as having both welcome and unwelcome phases; and
said that in the absence of any provi sion for former Presidents he would open a law office in his old home city,
highest standing."
@ar Association: American Bar Association. — The an nual convention of the American Bar Association will be held in Boston August 29-31. The Massachusetts Bar Asso ciation will act as hosts of the national
