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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Under Homer Stille Cummings, the Roosevelt Administration's first Department of Justice completed function No. 1 in 1933, Function No. 2 early in 1939, when Mr. Cummings retired to his rich private practice in Connecticut. No further big New Deal test cases are slated to appear before the Supreme...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Lay Bishop | 8/28/1939 | See Source »

The occasion was his signing, just before leaving Washington for Hyde Park, a bill setting up a $10,000-a-year fiscal-&-personnel manager for the Federal judiciary. Present at the signing was Homer Stille Cummings* who, as Attorney General, included a similar court officer in the tricky bill which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Off the Floor | 8/21/1939 | See Source »

Died. Cecilia Waterbury Cummings, 40, third wife of former U. S. Attorney General Homer Cummings; of high blood pressure; in Washington. She was 29 years younger, 17 inches shorter than her 6-ft.-4 husband, but official Washington considered them its most devoted couple. In 1937 she asked for-and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Milestones: Aug. 21, 1939 | 8/21/1939 | See Source »

Among famed writers of scientifiction are Edgar Rice Burroughs, Eric Temple Bell (penname: John Taine), Abraham Merritt, editor of the American Weekly, and onetime Wisconsin State Senator Roger Sherman Hoar (penname: Ralph Milne Farley). Pay is 1? to 4? a word. Many a well-known author who commands higher rates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Amazing! Astounding! | 7/10/1939 | See Source »

Homer Stille Cummings is still in Washington, practicing law privately. Harvey Bailey, "Machine Gun" Kelly, Harmon Waley and numerous other bottomnotchers are still in Alcatraz, where he put them. "Scarface Al" Capone, whose transfer from Atlanta Mr. Cummings personally supervised from a top floor of San Francisco's Mark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Those Babies | 6/19/1939 | See Source »

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