MAC READY, WILLIAM CHARLES

(1793-1873), Eng. actor; first appearance was at Birmingham as Romeo; first London succe was as Rob _ Roy; interpretations of Shakespeare’s heroes were good. (1862), American lawyer and statesman; b. in Elktown, Ky. He graduated from Vanderbilt University, 1882, and from University of Virginia law department, 1884, In the practice of law at NashTenn., he gained a wide reputa- - He became profe or of law school; Vanderbilt University and was appointed a istant attorney-general of the United States, 1903-07. Establishing a law office in New York he was counsel for the government in the tobacco trust, coal, railroads and other cases. In 1913 he succeeded Wickers ham as U. 8. attorney-general when he had to deal with the International Harvester, South Pacific, American Telephone and Telegraph, the Reading, and New York, New Haven R. R. cases under the Sherman anti-trust law. Appointed a ociate-justice, U. 8S. Supreme Court, August, 1914, seated in October.