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...limits her Governors to one term. When Federal Judge Charles H. Moorman died this year, a way was seen for "Happy" Chandler to go up to the U. S. Senate without fighting Alben Barkley for his seat. Who approached whom with the idea of giving Senator Logan the judgeship to make way for Happy is a matter of dispute. Friends of Senator Barkley, who has ambitions to be President, say he killed the idea, lest his path to the White House seem to have an unworthy detour in it. Franklin Roosevelt asked Happy to be a good boy and wait...
Texas last week buzzed with a rumor. Franklin Roosevelt having come and gone after conferring a Federal Judgeship on 39-year-old Governor Allred (TIME. July 18), the story was that there had been a political deal: Son Elliott Roosevelt had got his friend Mr. Allred the Judgeship and Mr. Allred would help Elliott get elected to office, perhaps the lieutenant-governorship in 1940. Prompt and explicit in his comment was Son Elliott: "I do not plan to run for any political office now, two years from now or four years hence...
...robe, which for years has been the despair and humiliation of every one connected with this Court. It is a sad commentary on the administration of justice, and the concern over it has reached way down to his native State of North Carolina. Before we hand over the judgeship of this Court, I want him to take off that old robe...
...Republican National Convention of 1880, Joseph Buffington cast 36 consecutive votes for Ulysses S. Grant. In the 46 years since 1892, when President Harrison gave him a Federal judgeship, he has written (in longhand) more than 5,000 opinions, filling 243 volumes of the Federal Reporter, wearing out dozens of fountain pens...
...choice for the first Democratic Senator to represent Oregon in 17 years was a corporation lawyer, Alfred Evan Reames. Having been turned down for a circuit court judgeship in 1933 because of his utility connections and for a district judgeship last year because he was too old (67), Lawyer Reames was satisfactory to conservative, 74-year-old Governor Martin on both counts. To the wary Governor, however, Alfred Evan Reames' chief qualification was his solemn promise not "under any circumstances" to run for Senator in the Democratic primary this spring...