Word: judgeships
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
...Lawyer Liebowitz ran for district attorney in Brooklyn, promising a vice cleanup. He was defeated by some 60,000 votes. Such causes as the Scottsboro trials, if of no elective advantage, may crown the Liebowitz career with a judgeship. As for the clients his talents have freed, not all have lived to praise him. Liebowitz sent "Mad Dog" Coll back into the streets. Brother gangsters wiped him out within a week. Convict Max Becker, missing the electric chair for the prison guard's murder, went back to face prison guards who did not forget. The electric chair burns...
...William H. Dieterich, onetime school- teacher and alderman of Rushville, Ill., the very cartoon of a porcine, "practical" politician, was inclined to grunt at witnesses. Originally noncommittal on the President's Plan, he lately got a bit of patronage in the form of an appointment to a Federal judgeship. and by last week he was dutifully surly toward the Opposition. To those whose answers did not suit him, the tone of his retorts was rough. At one point Professor Griswold of Harvard said...