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Once in the press of business Mr. Roosevelt knocked over his wastebasket, thought nothing of it. Two minutes before he was scheduled to press a telegraph key to open the new Cummings Highway over Tennessee's Lookout Mountain, "Doc" Smithers, White House telegrapher, went into the President's...
To place two men in his sub-cabinet, Franklin Roosevelt last week had to tread on some good New Deal toes: 1) To the pain of trust-hating disciples of Felix Frankfurter, Assistant Secretary of Commerce John Dickinson, able young lawyer but no reckless reformer, became Assistant Attorney General, in...
On Oct. 23, 1934, the chief of police of Wellsville, Ohio refused to turn over to a Special Agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation a gangster named Adam Richetti, wanted for taking part in the Kansas City Station massacre. That refusal marked the peak of jealous friction between local...
"Bing-Bang." This was the machine that the New Deal, through Attorney General Cummings, dramatically turned loose on organized crime. In 1932 the Bureau had had the kidnapping racket dumped into its lap when Congress passed the ''Lindbergh Law'' which made snatching across State lines a Federal offense. And at...
Of Judge Wilson's fitness for his new job, Attorney General Cummings declared: "You may rest assured, he wouldn't have been appointed if he hadn't been fully qualified."