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Word: cummingses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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The Federal penitentiary at Atlanta is making 500,000 yd. of duck cloth for the bleaching and shrinking of which the Department of Justice has a contract at 2⅝? per yd. with Delta Finishing Co. of Philadelphia. The finished product the Department of Justice sells to the War Department...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Necessity & the Law | 8/28/1933 | See Source »

To break the deadlock Attorney General Cummings was asked for a secret ruling which was carried up to President Roosevelt. The President's decision, it was reported, sided with Secretary Wallace against Governor Morgenthau that farm payments should be made regardless of the Act of 1875. Unreckoned was the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Law of 1875 | 8/21/1933 | See Source »

Secretary Hull's mollification was made easier for the President by the temporary-transfer, three days prior, of Dr. Moley from the State Department to the Justice Department. Internationalist Hull and Nationalist Moley have made poor bedfellows at the State Department. President Roosevelt turned his chief Brain Truster over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Roosevelt Week: Aug. 14, 1933 | 8/14/1933 | See Source »

Out of the courtroom strode Lawyer Keenan to telephone the verdict to his chief in Washington. Attorney General Cummings, elated, cried: "The penalty is an indication as to how the people feel. ... If convictions may be obtained and heavy penalties inflicted a sufficient number of times, kidnapping can be stopped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Society v. Kidnappers | 8/7/1933 | See Source »

A few hours before, Attorney General Cummings had conferred with President Roosevelt on setting up a Federal crime-fighting police staff, similar to the "National Scotland Yard" advocated by Col. Louis McHenry Howe in the Satevepost last week. The Roosevelt-Cummings plan, as announced in the Press last week, called...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Society v. Kidnappers | 8/7/1933 | See Source »

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