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...Thurmond supporter (who says that he finally voted for Harry Truman), was another kind of legislator. The President could count on him for a fair share of his program, excepting, of course, civil rights. When Stennis went down to the White House to push a friend for a U.S. attorneyship, Harry Truman didn't even ask him, Stennis reported, how he intended to vote on Taft-Hartley. With grim significance, Stennis added: "I hope and expect him to appoint this gentleman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Who Shall Be Saved? | 5/9/1949 | See Source »

Died. George Zerdin Medalie, 62, shorttime associate judge of New York State's Court of Appeals, longtime twister of the Tammany Tiger's tail; after a heart attack; in Albany. In 1933, Medalie passed on to Protégé Thomas E. Dewey the U.S. attorneyship that put him on the high road to racket-busting fame and national political significance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 18, 1946 | 3/18/1946 | See Source »

...Senate's poll on a new leader. He slid through, score 38-37. From his eminence as President Roosevelt's "good friend Alben," the new Leader can look back on a career very American: birth in a log cabin, campaigning on a mule for an early prosecuting attorneyship, learning law in a picturesque law office, finally soliciting votes by way of horse and buggy to get to Washington in 1912. There he has remained, leaving the House for the Senate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Good Friend Alben" | 10/6/1937 | See Source »

...Senate's poll on a new leader. He slid through score 38-37. From his eminence as President Roosevelt's "good friend Alben," the new Leader can look back on a career very American: birth in a log cabin, campaigning on a mule for an early prosecuting attorneyship, learning law in a picturesque law office, finally soliciting votes by way of horse and buggy to get to Washington in 1912. There he has remained, leaving the House for the Senate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Good Friend Alben" | 10/5/1937 | See Source »

...Hubert Durrett Stephens was holding public office (a district attorneyship) when Charles Thomas Fisher Jr. was a suckling babe. Last week they both received like privileges, the right to suckle Uncle Sam's payroll for $10,000 a year as directors of RFC. But these identical privileges were to them quite different rewards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Two Rewards | 3/25/1935 | See Source »

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