Word: humphrey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ruled that Franklin Roosevelt had done wrong in removing Federal Trade Commissioner Humphrey for no cause except that he was a conservative, thereby protecting the Government's quasi-judicial regulatory bodies from political tampering...
More important than this score was the manner in which the Court wound up its historic session. In the Humphrey case, in the NRA case and in the Frazier-Lemke mortgage case (not strictly a New Deal item), the Court did not divide. As Chief Justice Hughes thinks it should do, and as he always works to try to make it do, the Court spoke unanimously. These unanimous decisions meant more, however, than a victory for the Chief Justice. They served warning on the New Deal that it could not hope to win a legal whitewash by packing the Court...
After Franklin Roosevelt took office, he asked commissioner Humphrey to resign. Mr. Humphrey refused. President Roosevelt thereupon removed him, not for misconduct or inefficiency but simply because "the aims and purposes of the Administration with respect to the work of the Commission can be carried out most effectively with personnel of my own selection...
Thus Franklin Roosevelt lost and William Humphrey won. The only trouble was that William Humphrey has been dead for 15 months. His estate should eventually get $3,043.06 in back salary which President Roosevelt's illegal ouster deprived...
PATHS OF GLORY-Humphrey Cobb-Viking...