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...City's Court of Special Sessions, retiring in 1960 and giving as his reason ill health induced by the "constant anxiety, irritation and strain" of the job. He was a suave, London-born lawman, with plenty of influential friends-among them New York's Democratic Representative Emanuel Celler. chairman of the House Judiciary Committee. It was Celler who pushed his appointment as a U.S. district judge for the Southern District of New York; Attorney General Robert Kennedy agreed, and sent the man's name to the White House. President Kennedy, in turn, sent the nomination...
Like a Baby. As the hearings began before a subcommittee of the Senate Judiciary Committee, everything looked rosy. Manny Celler. appearing as a witness, was almost lyrical about Cooper: "I gained great respect for this literate, articulate and erudite man ... I am proud to say that he is a good friend of mine-not merely a sundial friend, worthless when the sun goes down." After Celler finished, a parade of witnesses followed to add their praise of Cooper. Then, on the second day of hearings, New York City's Association of the Bar, which had announced its opposition...
Penn is in a dead heat with Columbia for the celler berth in the Eastern Intercollegiate Swimming League, and at present the Quakers should wind up an almost uncontested last. Navy beat them 76-19; Yale was about ten points more kindhearted...
...nation's second and third domestic airlines-American and Eastern-declared their agreement to merge, opposition revved up on all sides last week. Other airlines, fearing sharper competition, protested. Democratic Senator Estes Kefauver said the merger plan has "the most serious of monopolistic implications"; Representative Emanuel Celler said he would investigate. Mike Quill's Transport Workers Union worried about layoffs among the 9,000 American maintenance men that it represents, threatened to strike after Feb. 1 unless the two lines pledged that there would be no job cuts. Bobby Kennedy was yet to be heard from...
...recess, the partisan snipers still plinked away. As the Republicans' leading sharpshooter, New York's Congressman William Miller, retreated to Florida to meditate the wisdom of surrendering either his chairmanship of the G.O.P. National Committee or his House seat, his fellow New Yorker, Democratic Congressman Emanuel Celler, helpfully counseled him to hang onto the latter. After the recent "Rocky-mandered" reapportionment of New York's congressional districts, gibed Celler, a Republican could not be unseated in Miller's district "by St. Gabriel himself." Responded Miller: ''I hope-for once in Celler's life...