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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Harlow To Appoint Successor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ACCEPTS PENN JOB | 1/26/1938 | See Source »

...from East and South, it seemed a virtual certainty that Justice Sutherland's successor onetime (1925-33) Senator from New Mexico, but every political wiseacre had his tip on the probable choice. The House Judiciary Committee did not neglect to send the President a resolution asking him to appoint its chairman-Texas' Hatton W. Sumners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: By Retirement | 1/17/1938 | See Source »

Whom the President would appoint no one, not even Franklin Roosevelt, knew for certain, but one thing was certain: the Senate would investigate and consider the qualifications of his nominee ten times more carefully than it examined those of Hugo LaFayette Black...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: By Retirement | 1/17/1938 | See Source »

...circulate 7,000 "Stop the Gas Steal" petitions, each headed by his signature. Snorted Civil Service Commission Chairman Thaddeus M. Daly: "There are three courses this commission may take . . . ask the council to take appropriate action . . . ask the district attorney to prosecute for misfeasance . . . ask the courts to appoint a lunacy commission for the mayor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Fun in Philadelphia | 1/10/1938 | See Source »

...anyone short of Stalin has ever produced and Field's employes have found their jobs both less serene and less secure. Last week, however, it appeared that the quiet days of yore have returned. For after the sudden death of Chairman McKinsey, Marshall Field directors decided not to appoint another rude outsider as chairman but to return to the time when the company was run by a man who "knew how to wrap a package...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Professor's Purge | 12/27/1937 | See Source »

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