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...Republican Party last week demonstrated the way to force-feed a U.S. Senator with a patronage plum. The reluctant Senator: Idaho Republican Henry Dworshak. The plum: a new federal judgeship in Idaho...
...maneuvered desperately behind the scenes in the Democratic Convention of 1912 to help his father wrest the presidential nomination away from Woodrow Wilson. During his twelve years in the Senate, Clark alternately fought and supported the New Deal, in 1945 accepted an appointment to a U.S. circuit judgeship from Good Friend and Fellow Missourian Harry S. Truman, best man at Clark's second marriage...
Bailey Aldrich '28, leading Boston attorney, has been recommended by Senator Saltonstall for appointment by President Eisenhower to a new Massachusetts federal judgeship...
...became crystal clear the next day, when New York City's new mayor, Tammany-backed, Bronx-backed Robert F. Wagner Jr., announced some of his own appointments. Named a justice of Brooklyn's court of special sessions (which deals mostly with misdemeanors) was Vincent R. Impellitteri. The judgeship, though it pays $19,500 a year, was no longer the apple of Impy's eye. Main consideration: by staying on the city payroll in any capacity for two more years, Impellitteri will become eligible for what will probably be the highest retirement pay ever received by a government...
...later in the European Theater. When he returned to find his place on the bench filled, he sued the U.S., claiming that the G.I. Bill of Rights guaranteed him job tenure during military service. He lost the suit, but the Administration in 1948 was able to find another judgeship for the heir to the Clark O.N.T.* thread fortune. Clark was exported to Germany as chief justice of the court of appeals under U.S. occupation. He set about irritating a succession of U.S. High Commissioners in Germany, notably the present Commissioner, James B. Conant...