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Harold Ickes, onetime Secretary of the Interior, last week confessed to an old sin. He admitted that he was the man behind the mysterious 1945 nomination of Oklahoma Congressman Jed Johnson for a $10,000-a-year lifetime judgeship in the U.S. Customs Court...
...jail in 1941, the steamroller had been repaired by Nephew Jim. It looked good for a while last summer, but last week, the voters overturned it. It not only failed to elect Harry Truman's Enos Axtell, it lost its two best patronage jobs, including the presiding judgeship of the County Court (in which Harry Truman had begun his rise...
...dining room of Albany's Hotel DeWitt Clinton the night before the convention. To satisfy the A.L.P. and P.A.C. they picked slender, sharp-faced Henry Epstein, onetime State Solicitor General and a member of P.A.C.'s national executive committee, for a 14-year State Court of Appeals judgeship. To add a bit of luster to the slate, they drafted Albany's 36-year-old Mayor Erastus Corning II, an ex-G.I. and Yaleman, for Lieutenant Governor...
Frank Joseph Hague Jr., lanky, 40-year-old son of Jersey City's arrogant boss, quit his $9,000 judgeship in New Jersey's highest court (Errors and Appeals), landed a new job. Appointed judge in 1939 by Hagueman Governor A. Harry Moore (who remarked at the time, "I know this will make his dad happy"), young Frank had no chance at reappointment by G.O.P. Governor Walter Edge, snapped at an offer to do legal work in New Dealer Leo Crowley's Foreign Economic Administration. New salary bracket: $3,600 to $4,200 yearly...
...proposals. In retaliation. Jimmy Byrnes's enemies began circulating the story that it was he who had let the famed "Clear it with Sidney" crack leak out during the Presidential campaign. Meanwhile, Sam Rosenman was reportedly sulking in his tent, sorry he ever left his New York judgeship to take up residence in the White House...