Word: mr
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Between them, Mr. Amlie and the Committee brought out very little about his qualifications for the ICC, before which he has appeared as a lawyer in a few cases relative to abandonment of rail services...
...committee deferred its vote, chances of Mr. Amlie's confirmation remained against...
...House last week voted to ham-handed Martin Dies of Texas, Rightist drum major of the Leftist parade, his $100,000 expense money for further probing into UnAmerican Activities. Mr. Dies promptly went shopping for investigators, ex-G-Men preferred. But Speaker Bankhead struck one last minute blow for the Leftists. To a vacancy on the Dies Committee he appointed California's earnest young Representative Jerry Voorhis, good friend of Red Rover Amlie and, since the departure of Texas' Maury Maverick,* leader of the Young Turks in the House. Son of a millionaire, Jerry Voorhis turned down...
...some minds most distinguished member. Spectators who had come to hear the arguments in the Strecker deportation case (see p. 14), occasionally glanced at the little, attentive old man, his head, crowned by fluffs of unruly grey hair, dwarfing the narrow, black-robed shoulders. As was not unusual for Mr. Justice Brandeis, he was smiling to himself...
Shortly after noon at the White House Franklin Roosevelt had received a two-line note. "Dear Mr. President: Pursuant to the act of March 1, 1937, I retire this day from regular active service on the bench. Cordially, Louis Dembitz Brandeis...