Word: laws
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...complain. All these three were just the kind of non-political appointments which made editorial applause obligatory. Disregarding complaints by Ohio's unpredictable Senator Vic Donahey the President chose, for the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, distinguished Dean Herschel W. Arant of Ohio State University's Law School. Disregarding a White House call by Pennsylvania's loyal Senator Joe Guffey, the President chose for the Third Circuit Court able Philadelphia Lawyer Francis Biddle, former chairman of NLRB and counsel to the Congressional investigators of TVA. To the seat vacated by "Borrowing" Circuit Judge Martin T. Manton...
...With a Westerner long overdue for appointment to the Court, Washington wise money was on three dark horses: Senator Lewis B. Schwellenbach of Washington; Judge Joseph C. Hutcheson Jr. of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals (Texas); Dean Wiley Blount Rutledge Jr. of University of Iowa College of Law, whose appointment would tickle three States, since he was born in Kentucky and summers in Colorado...
...application he had filed for U. S. citizenship. In Joe's room the detective spied the Communist booklet, pocketed it. Joe's citizenship examinations then turned into an investigation of Joe's politics by agents of the Immigration Bureau. They arrested him under the 1918-20 law which says that any alien advocating forcible overthrow of the U. S. Government, or ganging with folk who so advocate, shall be deported...
...national microscope was further emphasized when, to defend him before the Supreme Court, up rose Lawyer Whitney North Seymour of the eminent Manhattan firm of Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett. Mr. Seymour, a Republican libertarian, won freedom in 1937 for Red Angelo Herndon from Georgia's 71-year-old insurrection law. For Joe Strecker he argued that his case paralleled Herndon's, and that in view of the Communist Party's disclaimers, its members constitute no immediate menace such as the 1918-20 deportation law had in mind; and even if they did, Joe Strecker was no longer...
...readers know that Dr. Clendening lives in a residential section of Kansas City, Mo. (near Boss Tom Pendergast) and that ever since last October he has been subjected to a severe strain. Last week Dr. Clendening cracked under the strain, committed a savage infraction of the law...