Salt Lake Telegram | 1931-07-28 | Page 4 | Supreme Justice's Protege is High Ranking Statesman

1 Supreme J. J Justices Justice's s P I c I I I Is Js High Ranking Statesman 4 By HERBERT PLUMMER I I WASHINGTON July 28 That 28 That grand old man of the supreme court Oliver Wendell Holmes now In his ninetieth year year must must have felt a thrill of or pride 1 if he read the newspapers o of ofa ofa a few days ago For there was reported the fact that Harvey H H. Bundy of Boston had that day been sworn in as assistant secretary of state Bund Bundy is one of Justice Holmes' Holmes Back In 1914 Bundy then thena a L youth of 26 26 and just graduated from the he Harvard law school came down to Washington to serve sene as law clerk and nd secretary to Justice Holmes It has long been the custom of the venerable supreme court Justice to choose hoose as ns his helper each year an honor man In the Harvard law school graduating class Bundy won th this dis and from 1914 1014 to 1915 worked side Ide by side with Justice Holmes A YEAR 17 ROUTE But it was a far cry for Bundy from he tie position of law lw clerk to the Ion tion he now holds However he made It in just seventeen seventeen seven seven- teen een years During that time while engaged In the he practice of law he found time for or other activities that brought him to o the attention of President Hoover Particularly as assistant counsel of the he food administration under Hoover for or two years the two were close closely as as- It is generally generall believed In Washing ton on that this contact Ie led the dent to bring Bundy U to Washington to o take over the post vacated d by another another an other close Hoover friend friend William William Castle when Castle when Castle was elevated to undersecretary of state Just past his third forty birthday the he new assistant secreta secretary of at state states is s a tall blond bespectacled and handsome man His dark mustache makes him appear ar more serious than he really Is As a n. matter of or fact his actions on the he day he was sworn In Impressed everyone c present that cheerfulness and a willingness to oblige abUse are his outstanding traits OBLIGING For on that day news pho a. a who had been on his trail for two wo months finding him clamored for or pictures Immediately he as as- At his desk he sat posing In all 11 sorts of positions Just when It seemed as If his pa pa- tience ence was wn about exhausted In trooped the professional cameramen More lore posing posing posing-in In even more numer numer- ous us positions Finally it was all over Vea Weary hot and exhausted he arose and smiling ly addressed them Gentlemen I trust you ou are through Of O Of one thing I am sure You have taken enough pictures this morning to last through all my official life