Word: mr
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Attorney General Frank Murphy, whose sister calls him Christlike, last week named the man to run his new Civil Liberties Unit: Henry A. Schweinhaut, the special assistant who prosecuted civil-liberties violations in Harlan County, Ky. and in Jersey City. Besides protecting liberty's delicate flower, Mr. Murphy last week received the grubbier task of rooting evil weeds out of the Federal judiciary...
...Mr. Murphy's men soon shouldered Mr. Dewey out of the headlines and gave the public another scare by landing on Judge Edwin S. Thomas of the U.S. District Court in Connecticut, who sat in a bribery case whose handling by Judge Manton is now being investigated by a grand jury. Federal agents subpoenaed Judge Thomas to appear with his books and papers but failed to catch him with the summons before he sailed for Panama on the S. S. Santa Barbara. A radio to the captain to put Judge Thomas off with the pilot brought the message: "JUDGE...
...Chairman Arthur J. Altmeyer. Chairman Altmeyer's job was to present to the committee the revisions proposed by President Roosevelt's official Advisory Council on Social Security and additional suggestions of the board, which were received and approved by the White House last month. With little elaboration, Mr. Altmeyer passed on a recommendation that the coverage of the Act be extended to seamen, domestic servants, employes of educational and charitable institutions and other groups that would add 6,000,000 to the board's present clientele of 42,500,000; that the board increase its subsidies...
...General Welfare Act has 100 pledged supporters in the present Congress. Two of them, California's Jerry Voorhis and Harry Sheppard, turned up to read the skeptical Chairman Doughton prepared statements on the wonders of the General Welfare Act. The federation's nominal president, the Rev. Mr. Thomas E. Boorde, a member of the Home Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention, "which speaks for 4,121,000 Southern Baptists," declared: "The Church must be up and about its Father's business." Read to the committee was a long testimonial to the General Welfare Act by Minnesota...
...over where the money for a revamped, certainly more expensive, Social Security program is to come from. Without passing on the board's recommendation that the 1940 hike in employer-employe taxes from 2% to 3% should be the last, pending study of the Act's finances, Mr. Altmeyer told the committee that Secretary Morgenthau was studying the subject, would report in due time...