Friends intelligencer . VOLUME 76 PHILADELPHIA, FIFTH MONTH 17, 1919 NUMBEB 20. A. MITCHELL PALMER. FBLENDS IN PUBLIC Mitchell Palmer. Born of Quaker parents, near Stroudsburg, Penn-sylvania, and educated at Swarthmore College withGovernor William C. Sproul in the Class of 91, Palmer has lived a public life for many years,true to his Quaker instincts. He served several yearsas Congressman from the Twenty-sixth District, in-cluding Monroe, Pike and Northampton Counties,Pennsylvania. After leaving Congress he declined theappointment of Chief Justice of the Court of Claimsof th
Friends intelligencer . VOLUME 76 PHILADELPHIA, FIFTH MONTH 17, 1919 NUMBEB 20. A. MITCHELL PALMER. FBLENDS IN PUBLIC Mitchell Palmer. Born of Quaker parents, near Stroudsburg, Penn-sylvania, and educated at Swarthmore College withGovernor William C. Sproul in the Class of 91, Palmer has lived a public life for many years,true to his Quaker instincts. He served several yearsas Congressman from the Twenty-sixth District, in-cluding Monroe, Pike and Northampton Counties,Pennsylvania. After leaving Congress he declined theappointment of Chief Justice of the Court of Claimsof the United States, and resumed his law was again called to public duty by President Wil-son, when he was appointed Alien Property handled an enormous job, where no previous regu-lations had been laid down, in a remarkably efficientmanner. He collected over $800,000,000, which heturned into the United States Treasury, from Germanfirms and corporations; and he directed a large officein Washington, with representatives all over theLTnited States, with ext
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