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...nomination battle .between Taft and Eisenhower, bustled around the convention hall in Chicago wearing one of those buttons proclaiming: "I like everybody." When the balloting came, he liked Ike. later became a key figure making arrangements on the Eisenhower campaign train. He has resigned his $30,000-a-year judgeship, will serve the G.O.P. without...
...Pinchot appointed Fine to a judgeship. Fine took the job reluctantly, more to protect his prestige as a patronage dispenser than because he wanted it. In 1947 Governor James Duff promoted him to the Pennsylvania Superior Court. Each time, after his appointment was up, Fine was elected to the posts. It never bothered Fine-and it never bothered most of the people in Luzerne County-that he was a political boss and a judge at the same time...
...confidant of so big a man. "I felt highly honored to be in the presence of Francis Shunk Brown," says Fine. "I looked up to him with the most profound respect and admiration." But Fine told him that if ever Gifford Pinchot, to whom he owed his judgeship, should decide to run for governor again, he would have to support Pinchot. Brown thought that quite proper. Three years later, when Pinchot actually tried for the nomination against Francis Shunk Brown, the situation grew a little tight for Fine...
District Judge: promised a federal judgeship by Franklin Roosevelt, he finally got the plum from Harry Truman in 1946; as district judge in Philadelphia, he earned the reputation of being a highhanded pro-Government man; most notable case before him was that of Atomic Spy Harry Gold, on whom he passed sentence of 30 years...
...handle the tough job of enforcing the nation's price controls. He asked New York City's Police Commissioner Tom Murphy to take it on-if not permanently, at least long enough to get the ball rolling. But Commissioner Murphy, who had never gotten the federal judgeship he expected as a reward for his successful prosecution of the Hiss case,* was in no mood to rush to the Administration's rescue this time. Said Murphy, after declining: "I was flattered ... but I have a job to do as Police Commissioner in New York City...