National Affairs: Honesty In New York

Old men do strange things. So, at least, thought the Republican friends of 73-year-old George Woodward Wickersham in Manhattan last week. Mr. Wickersham was born in Republican Pennsylvania. He joined the Republican law firm of Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft. He became Republican President Taft's Attorney General. As a Republican he helped to rewrite the New York State Constitution. He is a member of the National Republican Club. As a Republican he headed President Hoover's Law Observance & Enforcement Commission. Yet last week George Woodward Wickersham...

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