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...General Murphy's pep meetings for U. S. District Attorneys (see p. 16) and the National Parole Conference were occasions in Washington last week calling for speeches by a man whose thin, shrill voice is seldom heard outside the House of Representatives, though there it commands respect: Representative Hatton Walker Sumners of Dallas, Tex., chairman of the House Judiciary Committee...
...scholarly, war-impoverished Tennessee slaveholder, stringy, hard-jawed Hatton Sumners, 63, is a self-taught authority on law and history (specialty: the 13th Century). When he rises to speak, the House hushes. On an automobile ride in 1937 with the late Majority Leader Joe Robinson, Speaker Bankhead, Majority Leader Sam Rayburn and Senator Ashurst, he announced the first serious opposition to President Roosevelt's plan for altering the Supreme Court by saying: "Boys, here's where I cash in." He would not receive the Court bill in his committee and forced the Senate to consider it first...
...Authorized $600,000 to continue the Monopoly Investigation, after hearing from Representative Hatton Summers that this inquiry, conducted jointly with the executive branch, represents a return by Congress to "normal functioning" after six years of subservience to the Executive...
...hearings, Acting Chairman Hatton W. Sumners, who had borrowed a cough drop from Northwestern Mutual's President Michael J. Cleary, tossed Witness Cleary a new box of cough drops, commenting: "Nobody can say this committee can be bought...
...World-Telegram's stories proved to be only the prelude to a blasting letter from District Attorney Thomas E. Dewey to Chairman Hatton Sumners of the House Judiciary Committee (where impeachment proceedings start) on the subject of Judge Manton. Mr. Dewey reported that, after a year's investigation, his office had learned about "a number" of the Judge's acts, of which he listed six, including: > Acceptance by Judge Manton or his corporations of $77,000 from a go-between for the late Promoter Archie M. Andrews, whose Packard razor patent suit Judge Manton helped to decide...