Word: morrisseys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...legal background is not exactly fudge, though it notably lacks the hard center of juridical experience to be expected of a federal judge. That deficiency has never budged Francis Xavier Morrissey from his deep-seated ambition to win a life appointment to the U.S. District Court in Massachusetts...
Last week, over strong, longstanding protests from the American Bar Association, the Massachusetts Bar Association, the Boston Bar Association and the chief judge of the court involved, Morrissey, 55, a Boston political wheelhorse and municipal court justice, took a big step toward achieving that goal. He was nominated for a Massachusetts federal judgeship by President Johnson...
...Like a Governess." Frank Morrissey got there by taking what in Boston was the surest route to the top of his chosen career. He made himself endlessly useful to the Kennedy clan. If he lacked the depth or background for knighthood in the Irish Mafia, Teetotaler Morrissey had the unquestioning loyalty, energy and discretion to become a prized sergeant at arms...
...reward for Morrissey's services, President Kennedy first proposed elevating him to the federal bench in 1961, but backed down when the three bar associations balked; the Boston judgeship has been conspicuously vacant ever since. Three years later, when Bobby Kennedy was about to resign as U.S. Attorney General, he asked Lyndon Johnson to name Morrissey to the federal court. Morrissey's cause has been pressed since then by Teddy Kennedy, U.S. Senator from Massachusetts, who has had a particularly close relationship with the old family factotum. "Teddy's attitude toward Morrissey," says one Washingtonian who knows...
...wrote its report, recommending that the whole project be transferred to Washington to be near the majority of its subjects. As a result, the Carnegie funds have recently been real-located to the Federal government, the project has been moved to the National Archives in Washington, and Charles T. Morrissey, former staff member of the Harry S. Truman Library, has replaced Handlin as director of the oral record...