Word: circuit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...judicial appointments which: i) pointedly disregarded the Senate, and 2) made it tough for Senators to complain. All these three were just the kind of non-political appointments which made editorial applause obligatory. Disregarding complaints by Ohio's unpredictable Senator Vic Donahey the 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...
President Roosevelt, incensed by what New York District Attorney Thomas Dewey discovered about Circuit Court Judge Martin T. Manton, who resigned in disgrace last fortnight (TIME, Feb. 6), instructed his Attorney General to see if any more U. S. judges were taking "loans" from litigants or otherwise besmirching their robes. Only the President politely put it the other way around: where else were efforts being made to "influence" the Federal judiciary...
When he was appointed a U. S. District judge by Woodrow Wilson in 1916, Martin Thomas Manton of New York, 36, was the youngest Federal judge in the land. Wilson raised him to the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals two years later, and he survived to become one of its senior members...
Missouri's Circuit Judge Allen C. Southern is a downright jurist who once kept a delegation of striking building workers away from his home with a shotgun. Every two years comes his turn to preside over his court's criminal division, and Judge Southern has taught wrongdoers to watch the calendar carefully. Last time he sat he tried to probe Kansas City's notorious 1936 election frauds, but Federal authorities beat him to the draw in a prosecution of 200 election officials and workers that severely shook the Pendergast machine...
When the case came to trial the insulted U. S. inspector was unshakable in his testimony. A U. S. judge in Hawaii fined the Coolidge $500. Last week in San Francisco the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals ordered the $500 paid. But meanwhile, in this complicated world, Dollar Lines has been taken over by the American President Line and the American President Line has the Government of the U. S. behind it. Net result: from the U. S. subsidized line to the U. S. inspector's employer, $500 for garbage inopportunely dumped...