Word: judgeships
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...flow of nominations. In Texas, Senator Ralph Yarborough and Vice President Lyndon Johnson quarrel now over every available patronage plum; Justice hopes to resolve a potentially bitter fight by selecting Yarborough-approved candidates for two unfilled posts in Texas' southern and western districts, Johnson men for two available judgeships in the northern district. Another troublesome appointment is a new district judgeship in eastern Colorado. Democratic Senator John Carroll has bridled at the personal favorite of Whizzer White, and made his dissatisfaction known by suggesting no fewer than 21 alternative choices...
...only one presidential nomination seems doomed to defeat. Kennedy resubmitted the name of John Feikens for the district judgeship in eastern Michigan, where he has an excellent record as an Eisenhower interim appointee. The renomination thoroughly rankled Michipan Democrat Pat McNamara. whom Feikens. a former G.O.P. state chairman, had accused of accepting unlawful union campaign funds in the 1954 senatorial election. Since McNamara will never approve Feikens-and the Senate will go along if he declares the judge "personally obnoxious"-the nomination will be left to expire and a new name submitted at the next congressional session...
...power. Son of a shrewd, up-from-the-adobe storekeeper, heavy-set "Don Manuel"-as everyone in town deferentially called him-owned the only bank in all Zapata County (pop. 4,400). He had also served eleven terms as county commissioner, piloted his younger brother Santos to the county judgeship, and for years ran Zapata's politics as a family fief. But last week Don Manuel's bank was closed down for lack of funds-and the whole county was flat broke...
...assembly already pledged in writing to support him, Unruh seemed certain to become Sacramento's next speaker. All that remained was to remove Incumbent Speaker Ralph Brown-and Big Daddy felt sure that he could arrange for Brown to be appointed shortly to a high state judgeship in. Fresno...