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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President chose, for the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, distinguished Dean Herschel W. Arant of Ohio State University's Law School. Disregarding a White House call by Pennsylvania's loyal Senator Joe Guffey, the President chose for the Third Circuit Court able Philadelphia Lawyer Francis Biddle, former chairman of NLRB and counsel to the Congressional investigators of TVA. To the seat vacated by "Borrowing" Circuit Judge Martin T. Manton in New York, he appointed on his own hook distinguished District Judge Robert P. Patterson, a Republican...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUDICIARY: Rocket & Flowerpots | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

National Republican Chairman John Hamilton, looking more than ever like a freshwater sea lion, barked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: It Was Republicans. . . . | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

Leon Henderson, Isador Lubin and Willard Thorp (TIME, Dec. 12). Shortly thereafter Thurman Arnold's Department of Justice trucked across the floor waggling a finger at patent monopoly in the glass container industries (TIME, Dec. 26). Last week it was the turn of SEC Chairman William O. Douglas. As everyone knows, Bill Douglas is a very agile fellow and when he revealed that his dancing partner would be the insurance business-far too dignified for Big Appling-everyone knew it would be fun watching...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE GOVERNMENT: Swing Session | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

...before leading Metropolitan's self-made Chairman Frederick H. Ecker onto the floor, Bill Douglas reassured the 64,000,000 people in the U. S. with life insurance policies (45% of them with Metropolitan). Said he: "No policyholder need have any concern that any fact brought out in this inquiry will in any way jeopardize the protection which he counts upon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE GOVERNMENT: Swing Session | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

...Joint Committee on Education which reported yesterday its decision for repeal a tie, 7-7 vote was broken by Chairman Laurence Curtis of Boston...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OATH BILL ADVOCATES GAIN BY REPEAL VOTE | 2/16/1939 | See Source »

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