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...Cabinet deal transferred the Islands' Federal judgeship from the Interior Department to the Justice Department. Thereupon Mississippi's Senator Pat Harrison persuaded Attorney General Cummings to give the job to T. (for Thomas) Webber Wilson, a Mississippi Democrat who had lost his seat in the House by running, unsuccessfully, for the Senate. Negro-wise Judge Wilson soon roused the Islanders' fury against Governor Pearson to fever pitch. Looming up as a likely successor if Pearson could be dislodged, he made national news by pouncing on poor Quadroon Mclntosh. Acting as combined prosecutor, jury & judge, Judge T. Webber Wilson denounced...
Touching a new high for Japanese arrogance, Mr. Yokoyama next announced that Japan nominates for judgeship in the League of Nations' "World Court" at The Hague onetime Japanese Ambassador to France Haruichi Nagaoka...
...devolved the more important duty of preserving the organization. His control of Kansas City and Jackson County is undisputed. Every county officer is obligated to him, virtually every State officer owes his job to Pendergast support, and he personally lifted Governor Guy Brasfield Park from an obscure rural judgeship to the State House in 1933. Boss Pendergast finds politics "good business," supports a string of racehorses with his profits...
...began a personal letter in which the President last week offered Nebraska's Arthur Francis Mullen, his floor manager at the Chicago convention, a seat on the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Mr. Mullen, whose friends had hoped he would get the Attorney Generalship, turned down the judgeship because "in these stern and tragic times I can render greater service to your administration as a private citizen...
...stocky, slit-eyed San Francisco lawyer by the name of Harold Louderback could thank Senator Samuel Shortridge of California for the Federal judgeship President Coolidge handed him in 1928. Samuel Shortridge Jr., son of the Republican Senator, thanked Judge Louderback for the fat receivership fees he was handed in his court. Last week the House thanked New York's swart little La Guardia, watchdog of the U. S. Judiciary, for digging up evidence that resulted in Judge Louderback's impeachment...