Word: dean
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...disregarded the Senate, and 2) made it tough for Senators to complain. All these three were just the kind of non-political appointments which made editorial applause obligatory. Disregarding complaints by Ohio's unpredictable Senator Vic Donahey the President chose, for the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, distinguished Dean Herschel W. Arant of Ohio State University's Law School. Disregarding a White House call by Pennsylvania's loyal Senator Joe Guffey, the President chose for the Third Circuit Court able Philadelphia Lawyer Francis Biddle, former chairman of NLRB and counsel to the Congressional investigators...
...With a Westerner long overdue for appointment to the Court, Washington wise money was on three dark horses: Senator Lewis B. Schwellenbach of Washington; Judge Joseph C. Hutcheson Jr. of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals (Texas); Dean Wiley Blount Rutledge Jr. of University of Iowa College of Law, whose appointment would tickle three States, since he was born in Kentucky and summers in Colorado...
...institutions is Ray Doan's Baseball School, transplanted this year from Hot Springs, Ark. to Jackson, Miss. Ray Doan, a forthright promoter, once managed the bearded House of David baseball team. He specializes in big-name "professors" (this year he has engaged Babe Ruth, Dizzy Dean, Burleigh Grimes, Gabby Street), lures some 300 pupils every spring thereby. In six years 500 Doan graduates have found jobs in organized baseball-mostly in Class D leagues where they might have landed the same job by going directly to the club for a tryout...
...dean, however, was not in Rome last week. He was William Henry Cardinal O'Connell, Archbishop of Boston. Twice Cardinal O'Connell has missed a papal election by not getting to Rome soon enough. The second time, in 1922, he missed it by no more than an hour, expostulated to such effect that one of Pius XI's first acts was to extend the minimum period between the Pope's death and the opening of the conclave to 15 days. Last week it looked as if Cardinal O'Connell, 79 and ailing, wintering in Nassau...
According to a report made public yesterday, Roscoe Pound, Dean of the Law School, has accepted the Chairmanship of the Committee of Americans a non-partisan organization recently founded for the purpose of restoring old fashioned integrity in public affairs...