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...Announced the resignation of the Treasury's mild-mannered General Counsel Randolph Paul, who may get a Federal judgeship for his three years of attempts to sell Congress on higher taxes that would not bite the low-income groups...
...rubber stamp." Intense John McClellan tried to get into the Senate in 1938 by tackling the machine Hattie Caraway had built around Arkansas's U.S. Marshals, had better luck this year when the State's other Senator, John E. Miller, resigned to take a Federal judgeship...
...elected next fall, New Jersey's ruddy, sleek Senator William H. Smathers must have the help of Boss Frank Hague. So Smathers recently backed Hague's man Thomas F. Meaney for a Federal judgeship. And, although Senator Smathers has not distinguished himself in the Senate, President Roosevelt, who wants 100% New Dealers reelected, obligingly appointed Meaney (TIME, May 18). The deal was a piece of routine politics...
...Corrupt." To a newly created fifth Federal judgeship in New Jersey Mr. Roosevelt appointed 53-year-old Thomas F. Meaney, who stepped into his first judgeship 19 years ago, has been a faithful follower of Frank Hague, aging boss of New Jersey and vice chairman of the Democratic National Committee. Mr. Roosevelt rejected the man whom Governor Charles Edison wanted...
...careful handling of the dynamite-packed TVA investigation in 1938 he was rewarded in 1939 with a judgeship in the Circuit Court of Appeals. There he might have stuck for a lifetime, wrapped in Biddle dignity. But when the opening came he dived off again to become Solicitor General...