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Slow, almost tortuous, has been the evolution of justice in the U. S. which the 54th Attorney General now recounts in a readable book entitled Federal Justice published currently.* Collaborator with Homer Stille Cummings in the presentation of the story of the Department of Justice and the Attorneys General, which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Federal Justice | 2/1/1937 | See Source »

Says Mr. Cummings of his work, done at home between 10 p. m. and 2 a.m., over a year's time: "It is ... the story of emotions, methods, and motives in that crucial zone of law and government bordering both upon the courts and the executive." The Attorney General...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Federal Justice | 2/1/1937 | See Source »

Completing the bill is a piece called "Hideaway Girl", which has no right to be amusing, though once in a while it is. The plot, strung together like an united shoestring, concern a girl (Shirley Ross) who pinches pearls at a wedding, eludes the police, picks up a playboy (Robert...

Author: By I. S. A., | Title: The Moviegoer | 1/25/1937 | See Source »

Upon leaving a pre-Christmas party given by Attorney General & Mrs. Homer Stille Cummings, Mrs. Campbell Prichett got the wrong wrap. Few days later Attorney General Cummings dispatched a G-Man to call on more than 200 of his other guests, get Mrs. Prichett's own wrap back. The...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 11, 1937 | 1/11/1937 | See Source »

Not until last week did the story leak out, via Chaplain Phillips. Attorney General Cummings promptly twinkled that, because of Christmas, Mr. Justice Van Devanter would not be prosecuted.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Ignorant Justice | 1/4/1937 | See Source »

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