Word: parkerisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President Hoover appointed U. S. Circuit Judge John Johnston Parker to the Supreme Court (see p. 16). Other appointments: Col. Guy Verner Henry to be the Army's Chief of Cavalry; Col. John Wylie Gulick to be the Army's Chief of Coast Artillery. Despite loud protest by some Washington citizens, the President named Major General Herbert Ball Crosby, retired, a District of Columbia Commissioner (TIME, Feb. 17). ¶ To the President was presented last week a report by his National Industrial Survey Conference to the effect that U. S. industry is gradually picking up the momentum...
Judge John Johnston Parker of the Fourth U. S. Circuit Court was talking to newsmen at his home in Charlotte, N. C. They clustered about him because President Hoover had just appointed him an associate justice of the U. S. Supreme Court, vice Edward Terry Sanford, deceased. Though 77 men have been elevated to the Supreme Court in its 141 years, only two came from North Carolina...
...attorney general in 1916, for governor in 1920. In 1923 he was named an assistant to the U. S. Attorney General to prosecute war frauds, an assignment which caught the approving eye of President Coolidge who appointed him to the circuit court in 1925. Married, father of three, Judge Parker bought a set of golf clubs five years ago, has not yet got around to playing...
Never a corporation lawyer Judge Parker is rated, on his decisions, a "moderate conservative" who on occasions may join with the liberal Holmes-Brandeis-Stone minority on the Supreme Court of the U. S. In Washington senators who bitterly flayed the appointment of Chief Justice Hughes declared that they had heard only favorable reports on Supreme Court Nominee...
Died. Anna Parker Lowell. 72, wife of President Abbott Lawrence Lowell of Harvard University; at Cambridge, Mass.; after long illness from a throat affliction...