Word: parker
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...have not succeeded in winning confirmation by the Senate on 27 occasions -- nearly 20% of the total -- many times for purely political reasons. The first rejection involved John Rutledge, George Washington's choice for Chief Justice, turned down because of his opposition to the Jay Treaty with Britain. John Parker, a federal judge nominated in 1930 by Herbert Hoover, was rejected by the Senate because of an antilabor ruling on the bench -- but also for some racist remarks made during a campaign for Governor of North Carolina. When Justice Abe Fortas was nominated as Chief Justice, his liberal decisions prompted...
...Braine, Bruce Christopher Carr, Silvia Castaeda Contreras, Barbara Collier, Kenneth Collura, Barbara Dudley Davis, Osmar Escalona, Dora Fairchild, Evelyn Hannon, Garry Hearne, Judith Kales, Sharon Kapnick, Kevin Kelly, Claire Knopf, Agustin Lamboy, Gyavira Lasana, Jeannine Laverty, Marcia L. Love, Janet L. Lugo, Peter J. McGullam, Peter K. Niceberg, Linda Parker, Maria A. Paul, Lois Rubenstein, Judy Sandra, Elyse Sloman, Lamarr Tsufura, Maitena Z. Viani, Jill Ward, Amelia Weiss...
...Fred I. Parker...
...Braine, Bruce Christopher Carr, Silvia Castaeda Contreras, Barbara Collier, Kenneth Collura, Barbara Dudley Davis, Osmar Escalona, Dora Fairchild, Evelyn Hannon, Garry Hearne, Judith Kales, Sharon Kapnick, Kevin Kelly, Claire Knopf, Agustin Lamboy, Gyavira Lasana, Jeannine Laverty, Marcia L. Love, Janet L. Lugo, Peter J. McGullam, Peter K. Niceberg, Linda Parker, Maria A. Paul, Lois Rubenstein, Judy Sandra, Elyse Sloman, Lamarr Tsufura, Maitena Z. Viani, Jill Ward, Amelia Weiss...
Like most subjects of biographies, Parker would be considerably less interesting if she had led a happier life. The woman who had everything -- appeal, style, brains, celebrity and that deadly wit -- also drank to excess for decades, repeatedly attempted suicide, spent her declining years in the noisome atmosphere generated by adamantly unhousebroken dogs, and was cremated in a party dress Gloria Vanderbilt had given her as an act of charity. Leslie Frewin's The Late Mrs. Dorothy Parker revisits this pith and pathos more grandiloquently but less methodically than John Keats' 1970 volume You Might As Well Live, on which...