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...Roosevelt's ounce was followed by a pound from Attorney General Robert Houghwout Jackson, in prose almost illegally lucid. Mr. Jackson argued that the imposing of uniform procedure on all agencies would act "as if we should average the sizes of all men's feet and then buy shoes of only that one size for the Army." Under the bill, any citizen substantially affected and displeased by a ruling "has everything to gain and nothing to lose" by suing in the D. C. Court of Appeals. If he loses, he may wait until the rule is again involved...
...Robert Houghwout Jackson, Mr. Roosevelt's Attorney General, is the man whom the President admires above all others: for honesty, brain power, practical New Dealism, skill at interpreting and applying New Deal law. But lacking in his tie to the President is the inner intimacy which binds Roosevelt and Hopkins...
Easiest short-term remedy for coal's ills is enforced price-fixing. But last week, as the Interior Department's Bituminous Coal Division was readying its first schedule of minimum prices, Attorney General Robert Houghwout Jackson had to go before the U. S. Supreme Court to defend the act on which they were based. Its attacker: Sunshine Anthracite Coal Co., which 1) objected to classification of its "Arkansas anthracite" as soft coal, 2) argued that in any event the Bituminous Coal Act was an illegal delegation by Congress of its legislative power...
Also peering into Christian Front backgrounds and propaganda was the new Attorney General of the U. S., Robert Houghwout Jackson (see p. 17). To an investigation of the Christian Front he detailed Assistant Attorney General Oetje John Rogge. John Rogge's instructions: to examine "the activities of any individual or group, wherever located, who may have aided, abetted, directed, financed or incited these particular defendants or any other subversive group working for similar unlawful ends...
...wanted this warning sounded to the dissenters in his Party. But since last autumn he has pledged himself to political appeasement, to all-round non-partisan harmony. He could not himself pull the lanyard of the opening gun. To him he called his favorite captain: Attorney General-Designate Robert Houghwout Jackson, the man Franklin Roosevelt thinks will some day be a great liberal U. S. President...