Word: houghwout
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...similar attack of his own. presumably to be delivered in his Jackson Day dinner speech this coming week. Opening shot was fired in a broadcast last fortnight by another Jackson, who happens to be head of the Department of Justice's anti-trust division-Assistant Attorney General Robert Houghwout J ackson. Bob Jackson, who is reputedly being groomed as the next Democratic Governor of New York State, last week followed his first attack with another delivered before the American Political Science Association in Philadelphia. Next day in Washington, Secretary of Interior Ickes stepped to a microphone with a fighting...
...Bureau of Internal Revenue-whose legal policies toward taxes and taxpayers have lately been increasingly stiffened and dominated by onetime Law Professor Herman Oliphant. Clarence Miles Charest, who held it in 1933, moved out to make room for Elijah Barrett Prettyman who moved out to make room for Robert Houghwout Jackson. When Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau's good friend Bob Jackson was elevated to Assistant Attorney General last winter, the job went to Morrison Shafroth of Denver, whose father, John Franklin Shafroth, was Governor of Colorado twice, Senator from 1913 to 1919. Last week, the post was vacant...
...utility counsel who came primed, after nearly a year of preparation, to convince Judge Mack that the Public Utility Act was unconstitutional, or at least to obtain a ruling on that point in order to appeal it, SEC's smart Attorney Robert Houghwout Jackson immediately opened a tricky gambit. He suggested that since Electric Bond & Share had never registered with SEC as the Utility Act required, the point at issue was not the constitutionality of the Act as a whole but that of its registration provisions. Electric Bond & Share, argued Attorney Jackson, was on an illegal spot. It could...
...York's much-needed 47 electoral votes for the New Deal. Democrats hastily analyzed their list of other possibilities. They could hardly spare Postmaster General Farley from his management of the Presidential campaign, though he craves the position of Governor. Tammany also dislikes 44-year-old Robert Houghwout Jackson, now an Assistant Attorney General whom New Dealers regard with fond eyes for his work as assistant general counsel of the Bureau of Internal Revenue (TIME, March 4, 1935 et seq.). More likely possibilities, if Governor Lehman refuses to accede to a frantic '"draft" movement which developed...
Jackson. To take Mr. Wideman's place, Attorney General Cummings snaffled one of the brightest of the New Deal's young lawyers from the Treasury Department: Robert Houghwout Jackson, the Bureau of Internal Revenue's Assistant General Counsel. Rated the No. 1 prosecutor of the Bureau of Internal Revenue, this Jamestown, N. Y. attorney had personal charge of the Government's attempt to collect $3,000,000 of additional taxes from Andrew William Mellon (TIME, April 15 et ante...