JUDICIARY: Hughes For Taft

Resigned. William Howard Taft, Chief Justice of the U. S., Cincinnati-born (1857), Yale-educated (1878), lawyer, Ohio Superior Court Judge (1887-90), Solicitor General of the U. S. (1890-92), U. S. Circuit Judge (1892-1900), first Civil Governor of the Philippines (1901-04). Roosevelt’s Secretary of War (1904-08), 27th President of the U. S. (1909-13), defeated Republican nominee for President (1912), Kent professor of law at Yale (1913-21). Chief Justice (1921-30). His judicial tendency: toward a cheerful conservatism, trying to keep-up-with-the times without violating tradition. Outstanding decisions: none. Reason for resigning: 111 health (bladder; a breakdown following his brother’s funeral in December).

Appointed (within four hours). Charles Evans Hughes, born in Glens Falls, N. Y. (1862), Colgate and Brown-educated (1881), lawyer, counsel for New York insurance investigation (1905-06), Governor of New York (1907-10), Associate Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court (1910-16), defeated Republican nominee for President (1916), Secretary of State (1921-25), member of the permanent Court of International Justice (1926), chairman of the U. S. delegation to the sixth Pan-American Conference at Havana (1928), president of the American Bar Association (1924-25), a prime campaigner for Herbert Hoover (1928). His judicial tendency: toward a conservatism less cheerful than Mr. Taft’s.