Word: cummingses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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All over the U. S. men marked Feb. 4 on their calendars. Bankers gave up the profitable business of importing gold after the last ship sailed from Europe to arrive in the U. S. before Feb. 4. Congressmen kept their social calendars clear in case President Roosevelt should have important...
Last week President Roosevelt received another complaint about his Secretary of the Interior, this time from Senator Pat Harrison of Mississippi. The point at issue was Mr. Ickes' antipolitical administration of the Virgin Islands. Secretary Ickes had insisted that Paul Martin Pearson, sexagenarian Chautauqua organizer appointed by Herbert Hoover...
Judge Wilson is a stern Justice and a Mississippi orator. In one of his first cases in the Islands he had declared: "I am responsible only to Homer Cummings and to God Almighty." He refused to dismiss a case against a minor public works employe charged with pilfering a small...
Fortnight ago The Nation printed an article by Raymond Gram Swing, denouncing Judge Wilson's actions in this petty case, rehashing the practical politics behind his appointment. Last week the Department of the Interior gave out The Nation article as an official press release, an hour later sent messenger...
Then he sat down and wrote notes of apology to Messrs. Harrison, Cummings and Farley.