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...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...
Eliminating the Snake. When Lawyer Leibowitz ran as the Democratic candidate for a Brooklyn county-court judgeship in 1940, his opponents warned that a defender of criminals would surely be soft on criminals before the bar. As if in answer, the new judge acquired the nickname "Sentencing Sam." "Once a criminal has the handcuffs on him, he knows it's not going to be a picnic in Kings County Court today," said Leibowitz. He was especially tough on criminals with previous arrests on their records. "I eliminate a poisonous snake from the community...
...fighting this week to prevent Speaker John W. McCormack from filling a vacancy on the powerful Rules Committee with Rep. John Young, a conservative Texan. If McCormack's intentions are carried out Young would replace Rep. Homer Thornberry, also of Texas, who has been nominated for a Federal judgeship...
Guglielmo, a City Councillor for many years and a former Mayor of Cambridge, said last night that he "doesn't know anything about a judgeship," but admitted that he, too, "has heard reports in Washington that the appointment would be forthcoming...
...being able to do things with a ball." - Almost half a century after he entered public life, forceful, hawk-faced Carl Atwood Hatch, 72, decided to call it a day. Harried by failing eyesight, the onetime (1933-49) Democratic Senator from New Mexico reluctantly retired from the fed eral judgeship he has held since his depar ture from Washington. But mindful that appointments to the federal bench carry lifetime tenure, the crusading author of the "clean politics" act that has immortalized his name in U.S. politics still hoped to give his fellow judges an occasional helping hand in court. Said...