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Into Fairyland. For two harried days Judge Picard, an able, conscientious jurist, tried to get somebody to help him define a trifle. Nobody would. Judge Picard recalled that, before the Supreme Court decision, the company had claimed that it took 14 minutes to walk from the time clock to a workbench. The union had said it was only a minute and a half. Now the company claimed that walking time was only two minutes; now the union said...
...unsuccessful 1938 "purge" of Maryland Senator Millard Tydings. Judge Goldsborough is tall, kindly, vigorous, the father of four. As a politician, he is a New Deal follower who represented Maryland's Eastern Shore in Congress for 18 years (1921-39), specializing in fiscal problems. As a jurist, Judge Goldsborough is impatient of red tape and somewhat hasty. Once he called a defendant a son-of-a-bitch in court-an outburst that caused the U.S. Court of Appeals to reverse the case on the grounds of intemperate language...
...climbing, poetry-loving Welshman and Foreign Office career man; Administrative & Financial Services-Kentucky's thin-shelled John B. Hutson, former director of the tobacco, sugar, rice & peanuts division of AAA; Social Affairs-sharp-eyed Henri Laugier, former professor of physiology at the Sorbonne; Legal Affairs -Ivan Kerno, Czech jurist, veteran of the League and the French underground; and Trusteeships-Dr. Victor Hoo, witty Washington-born Chinese diplomat, who makes a sweeping claim to be a citizen of the world: "It's merely accidental that I'm not an Occidental...
Opening in December, 1902, when the Supreme Court Justice arrived in Washington to assume his duties on the bench during the Big Stick rule of the first Roosevelt, it concludes with the precedent-breaking visit of President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt to the ninety-two year old, retired jurist. During these years, the play winds through only an occasional and superficial treatment of the century's important political issues. Over all, the ever-present guiding hand of Fanny is seen to be the driving force in the formation of Holmes' ideas and opinions. In the emphasis of the degree...
...situation called for a jurist who might be able to bring harmony out of dissonance, stand at the balancing center of gravity. After weeks of searching, middle-of-the-road Fred Vinson seemed to Harry Truman to be just the man, even though he was known as a tax expert and a skillful politicker rather than a jurist (he had spent five years on the U.S. Court of Appeals in the District of Columbia...