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...President's equanimity may be disturbed, it has been disturbed. Cause: the Senate's refusal to confirm his appointment of Cyrus E. Woods of Pennsylvania to the Interstate Commerce Commission (TIME, Jan. 31). It was the second rejection by the 69th Congress. Previous one: Wallace McCamant, "original Coolidge man of Oregon," to be Federal Circuit Judge. Judge McCamant had once said of Theodore Roosevelt: "Theodore Roosevelt was not a good American...
Rejected without discussion or record vote the nomination of Wallace McCamant of Oregon (who nominated Calvin Coolidge for Vice President in 1920) to be a Federal Circuit Judge...
...President announced simply and tersely that he would not withdraw from the Senate the nomination of Judge Wallace McCamant?the man who nominated him in 1920. Judge McCamant, who has the enmity of Senator Hiram Warren Johnson (TIME, Feb. 8, POLITICAL NOTES), allowed himself to be forced into saying that Theodore Roosevelt "was not a good American," and the Judiciary Committee of the Senate refused to recommend him for office...
...They needed no introduction. One was Senator Charles L. McNary, the other Senator Robert N. Stanfield. They brought the President news which he was not glad to receive. They told him that the Judiciary Committee of the Senate could not be induced to recommend the confirmation of Judge Wallace McCamant of Oregon as Federal Circuit Judge-McCamant who nominated Coolidge in 1920, and who allowed himself to be forced into saying that Roosevelt "was not a good American" (TIME, Feb. 8, POLITICAL NOTES...
...present bone of contention. Judge McCamant has done two memorable things in his life. The first was to nominate Calvin Coolidge for vice-president, and the second to characterize Theodore Roosevelt as un-American in the presence of a senatorial committee. This interesting opinion was drawn from him by Hiram Johnson, who has never liked the Judge since the latter violated his pledge to support him at the Cleveland Convention. The California senator chortling with glee at the result of his cross-examination, then glanced significantly at his colleagues. And their subsequent decision proved to Mr. McCamant that his denunciation...