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...federal judgeships, only three are now actively held by women, including the peppery Mrs, Hughes. But the precedent was set back in 1928 when Calvin Coolidge appointed the late Genevieve R. Cline to the U.S. Cus toms Court in New York. Later came the doughty suffragette, Florence E. Allen, now 80, whom F.D.R. promoted from the Ohio Supreme Court to the U.S. Court of Appeals in 1934. Now retired, Miss Allen eventually became chief judge of the U.S. Sixth Circuit, the highest federal judgeship ever attained by a woman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Judges: Her Honor Takes the Bench | 1/29/1965 | See Source »

...returned four-year-old Malinda to the Murphys after all four children stayed with them during the Murphys' honeymoon.) As chance would have it, the man Happy's suit came before was an old Rockefeller appointee. Justice Gagliardi, 52, had been named to his first judgeship in Westchester County by Governor Rockefeller, and later, as supreme court justice, had waived the obligatory three-day waiting period between blood test and wedding to expedite the Governor's marriage to Happy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Family: A Question of Custody | 10/9/1964 | See Source »

...Francis X. Bellotti told 200 Harvard-Radcliffe Young Democrats last night that he rejected an offer of a $30,000 campaign contribution in exchange for "serious consideration for a judgeship" for the contributor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Would-Be Judge Offered Contribution to Bellotti | 10/2/1964 | See Source »

...fellow come in today and offer me $30,000 in exchange for 'serious consideration for a judgeship.' Now he didn't mean serious consideration, he wanted something definite. We're $60,000 in the hole and going downhill fast...." Bellotti said he expected to be $100,000 in debt by the end of the campaign...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Would-Be Judge Offered Contribution to Bellotti | 10/2/1964 | See Source »

...Rauh, exhausted from the all-night session, appears at the church. The delegates listen silently as he describes the "excruciating pressure" applied to the Credentials Committee: One woman's husband has been threatened with the loss of a judgeship; another member has been pressured by the Secretary of the Army...

Author: By Nancy Moran, | Title: The Politics of Civil Rights: | 9/25/1964 | See Source »

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