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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...electing four members to vacancies on the omnipotent Ways & Means Committee, the Democratic House Caucus voted most heavily for Representative Milton West of Texas, non-New Dealer, good friend of Vice President "Cactus Jack" Garner and successor to his House seat. The other three fillers-in elected were New Dealers: Louisiana's Maloney, Pennsylvania's Boland, Illinois' McKeough. Conspicuously not elected to the Committee was a self-proclaimed candidate. Wright Patman of Texas, author of Bill No. 1 on the House calendar, to tax chain stores out of existence...
...Court of Massachusetts. In 1933 he turned down Franklin Roosevelt's offer to make him Solicitor General. Last week, however, Franklin Roosevelt made Felix Frankfurter an offer he could not reject: to ascend to the famed "scholar's seat" on the U. S. Supreme Court, succeeding his friend Benjamin Nathan Cardozo, who in turn had succeeded another friend, Oliver Wendell Holmes...
...Friend Cardozo performed Felix Frankfurter's marriage ceremony in 1919. Friend Holmes told Massachusetts it would be lucky to get him on its Supreme Court. Friend Roosevelt's tribute last week was equally impressive. For up to the last moment pressure was strong on the President to make his third Supreme Court appointment count politically by giving it to the West (now represented only by Minnesotan Pierce Butler) and possibly to a Catholic. The President paid his respects to Catholics by naming Frank Murphy Attorney General. He succeeded in paying sufficient respect to the West by asking Nebraska...
...arch-conservative legal profession, Gallup-polled, gave him five times as many votes for the Court as any other candidate. As a Senate subcommittee got busy to consider whether Felix Frankfurter should be called Associate Justice, busy Professor Frankfurter declined an invitation to appear in person, deputized his friend Dean Acheson to represent...
...lenient judge, who had found him guilty of first-degree manslaughter (calling for five to ten years in prison), let him off with a short term in Milwaukee's house of correction. Just before leaving office Governor La Follette, acting without the State pardon board, freed his friend because, he said, he knew the tragedy had resulted from Duncan's hard work and business worries...