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Show Charles E. Hughes Two-Career Man To mention the office of secretary secre-tary of state naturally brings forth; memories of another great statesman states-man who held that office and whose death occurred recently Charles Evans Hughes. Chief Justice Hughes had a remarkable re-markable career. In fact he had two careers, each lasting 43 years.' The first as a brilliant and success- ful lawyer in private practice and; the second as a public servant holding hold-ing among others two of the highest positions in public life in America, secretary of state and chief justice. I happened to be present on two occasions within a few hours of each other which might be the high' and the low point of any man's career. ca-reer. With a group of reporters covering cov-ering his headquarters in New York on election day I bid him good-night, fully believing as he and all nf us did, that he was the I president-elect. I saw him the j next morning when he came t I the door of his hotel room with j a grandchild in his arms to take in the morning paper which re- corded the late returns from j the West and gave the majority of the electoral votes to Wood-row Wood-row Wilson. I That same night Woodrow Wilson had gone to bed accepting defeat. . ; The only paper supporting him; 1 which failed to haul down the flag; : (signal of Republican victory) was the old New York Evening Post whose special correspondent, David Lawrence, had predicted Wilson's re-election and stuck to it when he was almost alone in his belief. How much of a disappointment Hughes suffered it's hard to say. No man was ever more reluctant about accepting the candidacy and the fact that he received such a proportionately large popular vote must have been gratification enough. He looked forward with anticipation anticipa-tion and pleasure to his return to private life but his keen interest in the law caused him to accept the judgeship on the world court. " He made a brilliant secretary of state under Harding and continued under President Coolidge. His selection se-lection as chief justice of the supreme su-preme court by President Hoover was perhaps a most fortunate thing in the light of the crisis brought about by the famous "court packing" fight under Roosevelt. His success as Chief justice was due not only to his remarkable remark-able knowledge of the law but his tremendous capacity for work and his ability to reconcile different points of view among the members without attempting attempt-ing to enforce his own legal viewpoint upon the individual. Hughes was a brilliant speaker. He. spoke naturally and easily, yzl with an excellent choice of worn. Although he was extremely dignj-fied dignj-fied in appearance and manner h was able to convey a warmth of feeling which immediately aroused sympathy and interest in an audience. |