Word: franked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Otherwise he kept alone. By week's end, when he departed in his big official Packard for a Michigan visit, he was fairly well rested. His nose was red, his freckles refulgent. He felt he had conscientiously obeyed the orders of his Chief, who had firmly told him: "Frank, I want you to get out of town [Washington]. . . ." But he could not relax entirely, for of all the top men in the U. S. Government, not excepting even the President, none was engaged upon tasks more pressing and important than Frank Murphy...
...first Department of Justice completed function No. 1 in 1933, Function No. 2 early in 1939, when Mr. Cummings retired to his rich private practice in Connecticut. No further big New Deal test cases are slated to appear before the Supreme Court before 1941. Therefore the job that Frank Murphy was left when he succeeded Mr. Cummings was substantially a cop's job, and he took to it with all the fervor of an Irish moralist, all the energy that his red hair, purposeful jaw and 46 years bespeak...
...press for antitrust investigation of Aluminum Co. of America, dominated by the family of his Cabinet colleague, Andrew Mellon. Mr. Stone was soon kicked upstairs to the Supreme Court and law enforcement became a subordinate job of the D. o. J. for the next 14 years until righteous Frank Murphy came along. There has been plenty of kicking in the Department since his appointment last January, but the kicker has been Frank Murphy and the kickees a great raft of high-&-low-placed malefactors, not a few of them important members of Mr. Murphy's own political party...
...self-righteous purging of the New Deal's loud-spoken Boss-Mayor Ed Kelly of Chicago. And Murphy men are after Atlantic City's Republican Boss Enoch ("Nucky") Johnson. That case might lead to action against the New Deal's biggest black sheep of all: Boss Frank Hague of Jersey City, vice chairman of the Democratic National Committee...
...these last cases the soul of Frank Murphy may be tested to the uttermost, for the political explosive in them is nitroglycerin, not common black powder as in New Orleans and Kansas City. Yet none of his friends suspects for a second that the soul of Frank Murphy will fail the test...