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...history to have been both Justice and Chief Justice. The first was Edward Douglass White, whose colleagues in 1910 unanimously petitioned President Taft for his elevation to lead them. Mr. Hughes resigned from the Court in 1916 to run for President, went back as Chief in 1930 by President Hoover's appointment. Washington insiders last week predicted that, if Franklin Roosevelt must pick a new Chief Justice and follows precedent by picking from the field, his choice will lie between Frank Murphy and Robert Houghwout Jackson. If he promotes a Court member, they said, the lucky man will...
...Catholic bishop in the U. S., Georgetown is the oldest U. S. Catholic college. For the occasion President O'Leary staged elaborate ceremonies, gathered many a bigwig for kudos and speeches (among them: Speaker William B. Bankhead, U. S. Attorney-General Frank Murphy, head G-Man J. Edgar Hoover, American Bar Association President Frank J. Hogan). To President O'Leary and the 7,000 other celebrants came an Apostolic Blessing from Pope Pius...
Through all this Frank Murphy was no shrinking violet. Last April he charged into the Midwest to be in at the Pendergast kill, taking with him G-Man J. Edgar Hoover, a great hand for being in on the kill himself. Everywhere Frank Murphy and John Edgar Hoover went they looked like Good, battling...
Meanwhile, the underworlds of a dozen cities quaked as virtuous Bachelors Murphy and Hoover flew back east. For some unexplained reason even the local law was being enforced in Chicago.* As abstaining Frank Murphy winged toward Chicago it became harder to buy a drink after the legal closing hour than it ever had been during prohibition...
...Francisco Golden Gate International Exposition: The Maharaja of Kapurthala and his son, Major Prince Amarjit Singh; G-Man J. Edgar Hoover chumming with Attorney General Frank Murphy (see p. 16); Mr. & Mrs. Harold S. Vanderbilt...