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circuit judge in Iowa. The New Deal wants to give him the judgeship, now vacant. Indeed, Eicher would have been a judge two years ago except for the wrath of Iowa's Senator Guy Gillette-who still resents Eicher's part in the New Deal's unsuccessful attempt to purge...
...Deal timetable shaped up last week, ex-Chairman Jerome Frank will hold his seat on the Commission a few more weeks until Cohen gets back from England. Thereupon Cohen will be named a commissioner and Eicher will be nominated for his judgeship. The New Dealers hope that Gillette's isolationism has him in so much trouble already that he will let the appointment go through. If & when Eicher gets up from the SEC chair, Ben Cohen will sit right down. Cohen will be too busy braintrusting and planning the defense program to run the SEC routine, so a plan...
...famed Section II. Last month he reported that "the back of the integration problem was definitely broken." This week, with a 5-0 decision in favor of forced competitive bidding for utility securities, he had finished the whole job. Chairman Frank was ready to don the robes of Federal judgeship...
...Roosevelt looked around on behalf of disappointed Mr. Madden, found a $12,500 judgeship in the U. S. Court of Claims, and kicked him upstairs into...
Died. Henry Horner, 61, Governor of Illinois; of nephritis, after long sickness; in Winnetka, Ill. Chicago-born son of one Solomon A. Levy, he was four when his parents separated; he and his mother took her maiden name. After 18 years' judgeship in Cook County Probate Court, he ran for Governor in 1932, sponsored by the late Chicago Mayor Anton J. Cermak, whose subsequent assassination left Horner politically free. Governor ever since, he agreed with the Kelly-Nash machine only on Term III. A bachelor, he found time to become an authority on Lincoln...