Word: appointer
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...Warrior. Alfred Emanuel Smith Jr. is an up-and-coming young lawyer in Manhattan. The local Institute for Public Service last week popped out with the report that Lawyer "Al Jr." had received 38 "professional opportunities," i.e., assigned law cases, from Tammany judges whose duty it was to appoint a defender, receiver or referee. The Smith son-in-law, Lawyer Francis J. Quillinan (lately married to the Warrior's daughter Catherine) was shown to have received 22 cases. The unfairness of the thing was that the number of cases assigned to other young lawyers was not mentioned for comparison...
...Smith nor any other President, can appoint judges of the Supreme Court of the United States...
...President shall nominate and by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall appoint Judges of the Supreme Court...
From the foregoing it is apparent that no President can appoint Supreme Court Judges, not even the "dehumanized super-efficiency expert" Mr. Hoover, if by any mischance he should be elected...
...comfort of knowing that it would soon be over now. Even if Mr. Hoover should be elected and appoint Calvin Coolidge to the Supreme Court or something, or if it were decided to continue living in Washington anyway, the strain of being First Lady would definitely cease before next spring...