The Monmouth inquirer. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1865-1933, 1924-04-10
STONE, N. Y. GETS
DAUGHERTY POST
Name of Former Dean of coIum-
bia Law School Sent to the /.
Senate by Coolidge.
is TYPICAL NEW highlander
No Friction Expected - Appointee,
chum Of President. Gives Up
s125,ooo Salary - Democrats
Express No Opposition.

Washington. In Harlan FIske
Stone. of New York, retiring dean OF
Columbia University Law School.
named as attorney general Of the
United States to succeed Harry M.
Daugherty. President Coolidge is con-
WINGED he has found 100000 man
for $4,000 cabinet fob His salary
is said to be $125,000 a year.
The President. it was said at the
White House. when Mr.. Stones selec-
ton was announced. Is also satisfied
that the new attorney general will
prove to be well grounded in the law.
thoroughly efficient as an administra-
tive officer. and absolutely unem-
barrassed by political Affiliations.
Dean Stone is New Highlander OF
medium height, heavily built. smooth
shaven. quietly dressed His eyes and
face have something OF that immov-
ability and resolution conspicuous in
pictures of President Coolidge.
Indeed both he and the President
had a common environment IN their
early years The President was born
and reared at Plymouth, Vt. Dean
Stone at Chesterfield. N. H, in 1872.
Both were small-sown boys Both
married girls from their own circles.
Both men went Amherst College.
too. The year Dean Stone graduated
with his B. S.. Calvin Coolidge was
still a plugging junior Four years
after that the hard working New Eng
lander from Chesterfield was grad
uated from Columbia law school and
was admitted to the New York bar.
He started praciticing law and lee
turing at Columbia in 1899.
Once he was making his own way
and the future smiled upon him, he
did not waste any time getting mar
ried He went back to Chesterfield
and changed the name Of Miss Agnes
Harvey He was twenty-seven years
old then
Dean Stone has two sons. Marshall
and Lauson. both at Harvard. Mar
shall is twenty-one and received his
A. 2. at Harvard in 1922. having gone
through the university in three years
after his graduation from Englewood
High School. He is now working for
his Phi. D. in mathematics and intends
going abroad this summer. having won
a travelling scholarship.
Lauson is nineteen and junior at
Harvard He was graduated from the
Horace Mann School in 1921. He
hopes to study law.
When he retired from the deanship
he became a member Of the law firm
of Sullivan & Cromwell. 40 Wall
street. That also necessitated his
withdrawal from the firm Of Satterlee.
Garfield & Stone. q William street.
with which he had been associated
since his early years at Columbia.
He is a director Of the Atlanta &
Charlotte Air Line Railroad. a mem
Der of the Legislative Drafting Re-
search Fund, president Of the Ameri-
can Association Of Law Schools. and
a member of the national. state. and
city bar associations. He is a Phi
Beta Kappa and an Alpha Delta Phi
member OF the Century and Amherst
clubs. And over and above these
items he manages to contribute now
and then to legal publications.
The appointment of Dean Stone may
destroy the geographical balance in
the cabinet, but Mr. Coolidge found
support at cnce for his belief that the
country wanted an outstanding lawyer
"a 800 900 man willing to take $12.-
600 salary from the government as
the President put it-more than mere
residence in any given state or sec
ton. New York now has two MEM
bers of the cabinet, Secretary Hughes
being the other; but California has
two and Pennsylvania two.
Although Dean Stone was repre-
sented as having been associated in
his legal practice with large corporate
interests. the Presidents spokesmen
pointed to that as indication of his
ability rather than constituting in any
sense, a reflection on him.