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Leche (convicted fortnight ago of defrauding Louisiana of $31,000) for a Federal judgeship. Last week, when Governor Jones was being feted in Washington, pointedly ignoring Senator Ellender, Little Bull's bitterness overflowed. He rushed to the White House, told the President he was going to plead for the Third Term ("the President looked up and smiled broadly"), and flew to the Louisiana convention...
Born in County Mayo, Ireland, O'Dwyer had walked a beat as a New York City cop, had studied and practiced law, been appointed a magistrate, elevated to a county judgeship. His brother had been mortally wounded by three gunmen during a Brooklyn café holdup. District Attorney O'Dwyer took office with a deep hatred of gangsters. Forthwith he assigned a staff of men to go back into the murders of Alpert, Sage, Rudnick, Penn...
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...