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...Receive and debate (in the Senate) politically vital appointments by the President. As of last weekend, they would include: Attorney General Frank Murphy for the U. S. Supreme Court; Solicitor General Robert Houghwout Jackson to succeed Frank Murphy; Circuit Judge Francis Biddle of Philadelphia to succeed Bob Jackson...
...social splurge in Washington, D. C. was the joint debut at the Carlton Hotel of Mary Margaret Jackson and Jean Browne Wallace, 18-year-old daughters of Solicitor General Robert Houghwout (pronounced Howett) Jackson and Secretary of Agriculture Henry Agard Wallace. Carrying bouquets given them by President and Mrs. Roosevelt, the debutantes for two straight hours hand-shook Washington socialites, Government wigs and hangers-on. Also reigning in another section of the hotel drawing room were the fathers, who did not cease to beam all afternoon. Gurgled Washington Post Society Pundit Hope Ridings Miller: "More men-young and older-than...
...laws breed litigation, and a great invisible subsidy of the New Deal has been enjoyed by the legal profession. No one knows this better than Lawyer Robert Houghwout Jackson, now Solicitor General. Painfully consistent in his New Dealism was he last week when, addressing the Junior Bar Conference (lawyers under 36) at San Francisco, he put his profession on notice as follows...
...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 be either Felix Frankfurter or the Court's baby, William Orville Douglas...
...Solicitor General Robert Houghwout Jackson, with the blessing of his beloved President, announced: ". . . The Federal authority must and will uphold the Constitutional mandate that commerce among these United States be free...