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...administration as Government Secretary, showed a steady hand at finance, revamped the tax program and the Alcohol Control Board. Seven weeks ago, when Atlanta-born Negro Walter A. Gordon stepped out of the governorship after two years, eight months and into a $22,500-a-year federal judgeship, Merwin replaced him as acting Governor. His confirmation by the U.S. Senate to the $19,000-a-year post seems certain...
...good friends in the press corps and in Congress, traveled three or four times a day to Capitol Hill on troubleshooting missions. He had a patient knack for satisfying both the Senators and himself; e.g., in one instance he talked a Senator out of six nominees for a federal judgeship until the Senator, as though it were his own idea, finally recommended the name Rogers had wanted all along. This ability to work with Congress paid historic dividends last summer, when it was Rogers who-while Brownell was attending the American Bar Association meeting in Europe-negotiated with House...
...Adams, "you're taking the train." And so Hall rode with Ike, took care of his schedules and appointments, and acted as a jovial maitre d'hôtel aboard the campaign train. On Election Day, without ever delivering a speech for himself, he easily won his judgeship...
TRUSTBUSTER Stanley Barnes wants to leave the Government for the security of a federal judgeship. A Los Angeles County judge before he went to Washington, Barnes would like to go back to California, assume the seat now vacant on the Ninth Circuit Court bench on the West Coast...
...lieutenant governor. Opposing Hart was ' onetime Democratic National Committeeman George S. Fitzgerald, attorney for Jimmy Hoffa's anti-Williams A.F.L. Teamsters' Union. By a more than 2-1 margin, Soapy Williams' Candidate Hart won. Williams' men also won hotly contested city-council and probate-judgeship races in Detroit...