Judge — February 22, 1913 — page 10: what you’re looking at

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Who's Whosiers Everywhere ICKERSHAM— George Woodward. Attorney-General pro tem of We, Us and Com- pany, and Trust-Buster- in-Chief of the Wash- |ington Chapter of the Brotherhood of Ameri- can Regulators. Born, Pittsburgh, September 19th, 1858, devoting most of his boyhood days to the study of the steel industry of his native town. His first words as he took in his first breath of the ambient atmosphere of the city of his birth were, “This soots me. I may be wicker, but I'll never be sham.’’ This observation led to a fearon the part of his parents that he would develop into a humorist, with the result that they had him educated at the start by private tutors, holding him aloof from every element thatmight fasten an untoward habit of mere frivolity upon him. A serious foundation having thus been prepared, he was permitted to enter Lehigh University, at Bethlehem, Pa., where he speedily learned how to dis- solve aggregated masses into their component parts and by careful analysis of dissolute particles to discover the weak points in massed ag- gregations. Studied law in Philadelphia, learning there that the race is not always to the swift, after which he embarked upon legal pursuits in the city of New York, a flourishing settle- ment on the banks of the Hudson, near Brooklyn, gaining an intimate knowledge of the various methods of doing things em- ployed by those who do them. Appointed Attorney-General in the political family of President Taft in 1909, and, while clean- ing out the pigeonholes of his predeces- re MODERN HIGH FINANCE—FORMING A TITLE GUARANTEE AND TRUST COMPANY NEVER DARKEN MY DOOR AGAIN, sit ! sors in that office, discovered there a dusty document, long forgotten, entitled the Sherman Law. Sending fora vacuum- cleaner, he promptly removed the cobwebs and other accumulations from the parch- ment, and discovered it to be a first edi- tion, whose edges had not even been cut and of whose existence nobody else in the department seemed to be aware. After acareful study of its recipes for the at- tainment of higher ideals, he brought it to the attention of a number of legal gen- tlemen who had attained to some degree of distinction as judges of instruments of that sort, and has devoted the bulk of his time ever since to gaining from them an interpretation of its hieroglyphic mean- ing, with such results that even the In God We Trust has been removed from our national coinage. Became largely inter- ested in large corporate enterprises and has added materially to the prosperity thereof without disturbing the delicate balances of the cost of living. Is said by his critics to have been largely responsi- ble for the division of the Republican party into its subsidiary corporations, by means of which it has ceased to be, for the time being anyhow, a holding com- pany. Is also said to contemplate an early return to private practice. Recreations, hunting the slipper and golf, in the lat- ter of which he is especially strong on the putting green, having frequently got- ten into a hole with a single stroke. Temporary address, Washington, D. C. All mail received after fourth of March to be forwarded. . Crawford—You seem to know every- body out here. residents. Suburbs—Yes; generally cooks. They must be all regular the new arrivals are comicbooks.com