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...Court to attack a foreign-born lunchroom proprietor of Hot Springs, Ark. in a case fateful for all alien radicals in the U. S. Important also for Franklin Roosevelt's Secretary of Labor were the Solicitor-General's arguments, for in attacking Radical Joe Strecker, able Robert Houghwout Jackson was clearing the name of Frances Perkins, against whom rested impeachment charges based on her alleged mollycoddling of an even more famed alien radical, Australia's and California's Harry Bridges. Two days after Miss Perkins told a House committee what an honest, patriotic woman and public...
...implied criticism of the New Deal was enough to arouse Solicitor General Robert Houghwout Jackson. An ex officio member of the House of Delegates, he advised his colleagues: "Let's not spend our time tilting against windmills. . . The fact is, the record of administrative tribunals is slightly better than that of the lower courts, where appeals were made. Federal agencies won 64% of their cases, while lower courts were sustained in only 54% of the cases appealed, over a ten-year period...
...alarmed view taken last week by most Business spokesmen toward Harry Hopkins as Secretary of Commerce was that, as a chronic social worker and economic planner, he might devise ways-in cahoots with his trust-busting fellow Janizary, Robert Houghwout Jackson, who seems likely to succeed Attorney-General Homer Cummings in January-of fastening new Federal controls upon Business. An entirely different view was expressed by Journalist David Lawrence, one of Business' most alert and alarmable servants. He wrote...
...President was not ready to tell who the next Attorney General would be. Observers guessed it would be Solicitor General Robert Houghwout Jackson. They also guessed that before Thanksgiving's turkey hash was all consumed there would be more changes in the Cabinet...
After the Court adjourned, Solicitor General Robert Houghwout Jackson announced that the outstanding case on the Supreme Court calendar-another hearing on the constitutionality of TVA-had been postponed until mid-November. Mr. Jackson was a little jocose. He said he and his friends were "not unappreciative of the compliment implied'' by New York Republicans in choosing as their candidate for Senator a member of "the legal staff of this Administration"-Lawyer John Lord O'Brian of Buffalo (see p. 12}. The shoe was really on the other foot: Lawyer O'Brian also served...