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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 »

In Homer Cummings' day, the law's delay was accentuated by court dockets loaded down with arrears. From a high of 45,000 pending civil and criminal cases in 1933, he got them reduced to some 22,000 in 1938, but there was still good cause for incoming...

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 »

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