Word: judgeship
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There, he settled down to a judgeship, and never went back to Utopia...
...Well, everybody, the fat is in the fry, politically, as I hereby formally announce my candidacy for Congress to succeed Marvin Jones. My latest information is that Marvin will resign this summer to accept a Federal judgeship. . . . And [his] successor will...
None of the appointees, Law School officials pointed out, can be looked on as successors to Felix Frankfurter, who retired this winter to become an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, or to Calvert Magrudor, whose appointment to a Federal judgeship was announced a week...
...chipmunk-cheeked Joseph Berry ("Joe") Keenan, 51, who was called from his profitable Cleveland law practice to assist Attorney-General Homer Cummings with criminal prosecutions at the peak of the Kidnap Era (1933) and who stayed on to become chief White House overseer of the Senate, especially in Federal judgeship appointments. Should the New Deal game end in late 1940 and hordes of its legal alumni come pouring out of the government grandstands to become Washington lawyers, lobbyists and the like, able Lawyer Keenan will have a long headstart on them...
Stories that Joe Keenan resigned because Boss Roosevelt would not make him, too, a Federal judge, were false as a gangster's oath. Fact was, Joe Keenan was offered a $12,500 judgeship and he declined it simply because that is not enough on which to send four children through college. Back in private practice, Lawyer Keenan can easily make several times $12,500 a year. His standing with the Janizariat is ace high. Yet because his unswerving efforts in the Supreme Court fight and the Purge were known to be based more on loyalty than conviction, he stands...