Word: appointment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President Roosevelt never said just when he would appoint a successor to Justice Willis Van Devanter who retired two months ago. Nonetheless it had been largely taken for granted that he would do so before Congress adjourned. Last week with that adjournment becoming imminent, what had been taken for granted became a matter of speculation. For the President announced he had asked Attorney General Cummings for an opinion on his power to appoint a Justice when Congress was not in session...
...content to guess, Republican Arthur Vandenberg of Michigan introduced a resolution in the Senate declaring it the "sense" of that body. The President should appoint Justices of the Supreme Court only when the Senate could act on the nominations before the nominees began service. Said he: "It is manifest the Senate can't be a free agent to exercise responsibility under the Constitution to confirm Supreme Court nominees if the Senate can't act until after a nominee has put on his robes and served for many months as an integral part of the Court...
...only to the point of accepting from Republic a consignment of guns, ammunition and tear gas. "I finally told them it was up to the mayor," testified Chief Switter. ''They made the old boy pretty hot. Then they jumped on me. I said all right I would appoint the whole damned outfit. I would give them everything they wanted. I could see there would be a battle and bloodshed as soon as they put guns into those rookies' hands...
Having cogitated SEC's friendly criticism and suggestions, the Council's president, able, chubby J. (for Joshua) Reuben Clark Jr., requested the Secretary of State and SEChairman to appoint a two-man "Board of Visitors" to descend upon the Council ''from time to time with or without notice." For his man. Secretary of State Hull last week designated Herbert Feis, State Department adviser on international economic affairs, and SEChairman James McCauley Landis named the SEChairman-presumably Commissioner William O. Douglas, who is slated to succeed Mr. Landis when that New Dealer retires next September to take...
Arrival in Little Rock brought a new element into the picture. Mr. Farley had wired ahead to Arkansas' Governor Carl E. Bailey and rushed off to a breakfast appointment to urge him to appoint at once a pro-Administration Senator in Joe Robinson's place. This was a delicate problem because Governor Bailey has his eye on the seat and must soon call a special election to fill it. Already it had been suggested that he appoint Widow Ewilda Robinson, which would make Arkansas the first State to have an all-female representation in the Senate, since Arkansas...