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With more red tape out of the way, the approval of the President's nomination of the Professor Felix Frankfurter to the vacant seat on the Supreme Court Bench came closer to reality...
...Boys. Felix Frankfurter's notes recommending young lawyers-over a scrawled "FF"-fluttered into Washington long before the New Deal (Corcoran, for instance, was a gift to Hoover's RFC). The fact that 125 "happy hot dogs" are in Washington today spurred General Hugh Johnson to call Professor Frankfurter "the most influential single individual...
Childless Felix Frankfurter is pleased when the hot dogs call him "Poppa." Some of their doings please Poppa completely. He is proud of the share Hot Dogs Cohen & Corcoran had in drafting the Public Utility Holding Company Act and the Securities Exchange Act, both expressions of the Brandeis-Frankfurter economic crusade against bigness and irresponsibility. But NRA left Mr. Frankfurter cold and suspicious. And though he did not publicly attack the Court Plan, he wrote an indignant letter of repudiation when an article in a British magazine gave out that Protégés Cohen & Corcoran had helped originate...
Fighter & Fight. "Don't call me judge," Felix Frankfurter implored newsmen who stormed his Cambridge home after the appointment, "I'm not confirmed yet." Ten years ago, getting Fighter Frankfurter, defender of Tom Mooney and of Sacco & Vanzetti, by the Senate would have meant a sizable fight. Last week Tom Mooney walked out of jail, and it seemed that Felix Frankfurter would step as easily into the Supreme Court. Felix Frankfurter had become so relatively inoffensive that last September the arch-conservative legal profession, Gallup-polled, gave him five times as many votes for the Court...
...Administrative Law believes above all else that the independent Government boards and agencies that have taken over much of the lawmaker's function should be no more arbitrary than other lawmakers. If Fighter Frankfurter's enthusiasm for drawing this line inconveniences red hot New Dealers, at 56 Felix Frankfurter may still be in a bitter fight after he joins the Supreme Court...