Word: meaney
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...crowded Newark courtroom, Thomas F. Meaney last week took oath as Federal District Court Judge for New Jersey. Judge Guy L. Fake made a little speech of welcoming praise. Said Judge Meaney, with a moist eye, a lumped throat: "I can only say what is in my heart, and that is gratitude...
Barred from the courtroom was the unpleasant truth: that Judge Meaney was a protégé of notorious Jersey Boss Frank Hague, that he had been appointed by the President in a deal for Hague votes next fall, that the Senate had venally confirmed the venal appointment, despite an impassioned protest by venerable Senator George Norris. Less polite than the courtroom dialogue was George Norris's comment: "[If the nation were not busy with war] the Meaney nomination would spread over the country like wildfire, and would bring about the defeat of any official who had anything...
...question before the Senate was whether or not to approve President Roosevelt's nomination of Federal Judge Thomas F. Meaney, henchman of New Jersey's strident Boss Frank Hague (TIME, May 18). Only there was no question. In the Senatorial gentlemen's club, there was no chance of blocking the appointment, and old George Norris knew it. Nevertheless Norris rose to speak his mind: to indict political machines such as Hague's and political deals like the Meaney affair...
Condemnation and Shame. Said George Norris: "The confirmation or rejection of the nomination of Mr. Meaney is a national question. It is not a local question; it is not a question affecting New Jersey alone, but it is a question affecting the entire United States. The question involved is whether the Hague machine, which is one of the most disreputable, demagogic political machines that ever existed, shall extend its power beyond New Jersey and take in the Federal Government...
...Hague-dealing Senator William Smathers, who needs Hague's support in order to get re-elected this autumn. Said Smathers smoothly: "In the interest of bringing on a speedy vote, I shall deny myself the pleasure of the two-hour speech I have here." The vote to confirm Meaney...