Word: generale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Recommendation. The House committee handled sad-faced Frank Oppenheimer gently. When he finished his testimony, Senior Investigator Louis J. Russell told the committee that it was only fair to let the record show that General Groves knew all along that Frank Oppenheimer had been a Communist who had broken clean before he went to work on the atomic bomb. "And," added Russell, "Dr. Oppenheimer's loyalty was vouched for by an outstanding scientist." Russell didn't name the outstanding scientist to the committee, but confided it to newsmen afterwards. It was brother Robert...
Stanley Reed, Kentucky-born, onetime Solicitor General, once a practical dirt fanner, writer of pedestrian opinions, rated as an able lawyer...
Frank Murphy, ex-governor of Michigan, onetime Attorney General, the court's only Roman Catholic, a man of humanitarian impulses without the intellectual drive and capacity to make himself highly effective...
Robert Houghwout Jackson, onetime Attorney General, collector of McGuffey's Readers, ardent horseman, an eloquent, incisive writer who, when he dissents, dissents in vitriol; considered by corporation lawyers to be the most consistent of the justices...
Schism in the Court. The general flow of the court's majority opinions was along two main courses. One course was toward increasing tolerance of Government's spreading authority: the Supreme Court was for Big Government...