Word: meaney
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...elected next fall, New Jersey's ruddy, sleek Senator William H. Smathers must have the help of Boss Frank Hague. So Smathers recently backed Hague's man Thomas F. Meaney for a Federal judgeship. And, although Senator Smathers has not distinguished himself in the Senate, President Roosevelt, who wants 100% New Dealers reelected, obligingly appointed Meaney (TIME, May 18). The deal was a piece of routine politics...
Governor Edison knew that President Roosevelt's appointment of Meaney was the routine sort of kick-in-the-face that practical politicians must learn to shrug off. He knew that, unless he held his peace, he would embarrass Friend Roosevelt. Yet last week, with the philosophic detachment of the deaf, and the practical detachment of a man to whom politics is more than a game, he sat down and wrote a statesman's letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee...
...From the day when his name was first mentioned, I have opposed the appointment. . . . Not because I have any personal antipathy to [Meaney]-so far as I know I have never met him-but because he represents an attitude toward the judicial office which is to me repulsive, and is and ever will be, I hope, repulsive to all Americans...
...recent career of Mr. Meaney has demonstrated that he is a pawn in the hands of a man who has expressed his conception of the nature of justice in the now-famous phrase, 'I am the law.' . . . Can it be assumed that he will divest himself of the habits of a lifetime and administer his court with a justice unstained by politics...
Statesman Edison put the issue of making Tom Meaney a judge up to the statesmen of the U.S. Senate...