Word: cummingses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chief Justice Hughes' letter itself presented incontrovertible facts which place the administration in a woefully weak position. Senator Wheeler's comment emphasising the "deplorable misinformation" of Attorney-General Cummings is the only possible reaction to Hughes' account of the efficiency of court procedure. The use by Cummings and the President...
As befits the beginning of a sequel, the end of the first scene found the protagonist involved in new difficulties. His final speech, a sober fireside chat appealing to the nation on behalf of his Supreme Court plan was in a far different setting from the flourish of trumpets which...
Idle Dream, Having soothed alarmists by radio, the President next day offered further reassurance by packing his bags for his customary Warm Springs trip as if no crisis were present or in prospect. His new strategy advanced when Attorney General Homer Stille Cummings took the stand as first witness at...
With a geniality leaning toward flippancy, suave Mr. Cummings read an amiable 5,000-word paraphrase of standard arguments for the plan, submitted himself to some surprisingly mild questioning by the 18-man committee.
It was Henry Suydam who took the lid of secrecy off the Federal prison on Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay, made arrangements for spot-news releases on happenings in that famed and gloomy jail. As a pressagent, Assistant Suydam knew what Washington correspondents wanted because he had been a...