Word: circuiter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Frank Murphy to succeed Pierce Butler on the Supreme Court; that Solicitor General Robert Jackson stepped up to the Attorney-Generalship (and maybe to a better starting position, said the Washington Post, for a run for the Vice-Presidency); that earnest, aristocratic Francis Biddle of Philadelphia stepped from the Circuit Court of Appeals to the Solicitor-Generalship (TIME, Jan. 8). Nor was there much surprise that five new, long-impending State Department appointments were carried through. Nominations poured from the White House to the Senate in a volley; the President was making news again faster than the press could find...
...Receive and debate (in the Senate) politically vital appointments by the President. As of last weekend, they would include: Attorney General Frank Murphy for the U. S. Supreme Court; Solicitor General Robert Houghwout Jackson to succeed Frank Murphy; Circuit Judge Francis Biddle of Philadelphia to succeed Bob Jackson...
Hull was 32 when a vacancy occurred in the Circuit Court. Governor James B. Frazier, remembering his services during the election crisis, appointed him judge-a title he still values more than any other. "They changed his name from Hull to Hell," complained the moonshiners. Once he fined his own pappy $5 for sitting in court with...