Word: district
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First Negro ever appointed to the Federal judiciary was William Henry Hastie, whom Franklin Roosevelt sent to the District Court of the racially scrambled Virgin Islands (TIME, Feb. 15, 1937). Judge Hastie resigned this year to become dean of Howard University's law school (Washington, D. C.). Last week came a second dispensation of this politically potent plum. Senator James Michael Slattery of Illinois, who needs the big Negro vote on Chicago's South Side for re-election next year to the seat he inherited from the late "J. Ham" Lewis, got it for his former assistant...
...Panama Canal Zone, the Federal District Court is Justice's only habitation in the Virgin Islands except for police courts. All offenses for which the penalty is more than six months in jail are tried in the Federal Court. At that, it handles only about 300 cases per year. The chief litigation is divorce. Judge Hastie had only two murder convictions in his two years. Rape cases are nearly as infrequent. The Court is peripatetic, traveling between the islands of St. Thomas and St. Croix. As it goes, its criteria must change, for until a few years...
...Tammany Boss Frank V. Kelly of Brooklyn succeeded in getting Franklin Roosevelt to appoint his friend Harold M. Kennedy U. S. Attorney for New York City's Eastern district, instead of David Schenker, candidate of Mayor LaGuardia and Thomas ("Uncorkable") Corcoran. Interpretation: after his talk last fortnight with Mr. Farley, Mr. Roosevelt decided to appease local bosses; in this instance, abandoned the Corcoran plan to encircle Republican County Attorney Tom Dewey with brilliant New Deal prosecutors and prosecutions. Exaggeration (on the radio by Son Elliott Roosevelt): "Brooklyn is the key to the 1940 election...
Police found the blue sedan, a stolen one, and a fired gun, but not the killer. They were mystified until Republican District Attorney Tom Dewey's office down in Manhattan called up to ask a bodyguard for Philip Orlovsky. That made Democratic District Attorney Sam Foley of The Bronx furious. Orlovsky, it appeared, was one of Tom Dewey's prospective witnesses against Racketeer Louis (Lepke) Buchalter, a fugitive under indictment for dirty work in the fur, clothing, baking, restaurant, paint, trucking and other trades. Two other Dewey witnesses had been similarly shot down, presumably by Racketeer Lepke...
...play in the Eastern grass-court tournaments, to be included among the first ten in U. S. ranking and be selected for the Davis Cup is the ambition of every young man whose tennis game is good enough to win a State or district championship. This week at the toney Seabright Lawn Tennis & Cricket Club on the Jersey coast, the cream of the current crop of Davis Cup hopefuls, more enthusiastic than ever because there is no titan like Donald Budge to tower over them this year, will match strokes in the first of the four major grass-court tournaments...