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...behalf of Ernest Michel, his candidate for a Federal judgeship, Minnesota's blind Senator Schall last week carried to the White House his fight against Attorney General Mitchell, chief Michel critic. He told President Hoover: "Taft wrecked his Administration by trusting Ballinger, Harding wrecked his by trusting Daugherty and Fall. Are you going to wreck yours by further trusting your Attorney General...
...contest for his Senate seat in 1924. Last autumn eloquent "Tom" Davis, while supporting Farmer-Labor candidates otherwise, supported Republican Senator Schall for reelection. Mr. Schall won-and promptly, as he had publicly promised to do, recommended "Tom" Davis' partner, Ernest A. Michel, for a Federal judgeship that was vacant in Minnesota...
...record last week came additions: one more judge indicted, one more resigned. The indictment was for George F. Ewald, the resigned magistrate, original target of the inquiry which Governor Roosevelt was forced to order some months ago when his political foes (Republican) aroused public suspicion that New York City judgeships were being sold for cash by Tammany Hall. Two county juries came to no decision on Judge Ewald's case, though a Federal jury indicted him on a mail fraud charge. It was with suddenness, after hearing another suspected judge testify secretly, that a special county jury indicted...
...York City organization, and a more elevated element at present headed by Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt. For months the local Republicans have been bombarding New York City's Tammany administration with charges which culminated in the indictment of Magistrate George F. Ewald, alleged to have bought his judgeship. Observers last week began wondering if the bombardment had started a crack in the national Democratic Keystone...
...this article, under a good photograph of Mr. Hughes, there is the following remark in fat print: "HUGHES AND SUPREME JUDGESHIP" Mr. Taft ought never to have named him. The senate ought never to have confirmed him. He was no more meant for the position than was Boss Murphy for the rectorship of Trinity Church...