Word: philadelphia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...vacancies in Philadelphia's Third Circuit Court of Appeals (TIME, June 13), the President elevated cute, caustic, gangling District Judge William Clark, 47, foe of the late 18th Amendment,* now presiding over C.I.O.'s suit for an injunction against interference with civil liberties in Jersey City...
...like such famed Senators as Black, Wheeler, Nye, La Follette and the late Tom Walsh, his committee last week retained a paid inquisitor just as the Senate's Wall Street investigation in 1933-34 hired Lawyer Ferdinand Pecora. The TVA committee's choice: Francis Biddle, 52, a Philadelphia lawyer who followed Franklin Roosevelt through Groton and Harvard into the New Deal, served as chairman of NLRB in NRA days. Mr. Biddle, although once attorney for such great corporations as the Pennsylvania Railroad and A. & P. chain stores, is an ardent New Dealer, hardly likely to bring much comfort...
Last week, wordy, 80-year-old District Judge Oliver Booth Dickinson of Philadelphia had much to say, thereby made an obscure labor case highly significant and, at least temporarily, regained some of his lost powers. Noting that the Wagner Act suspends Norris-LaGuardia restrictions in so far as they hamper Circuit Court enforcement of NLRB orders. Judge Dickinson deduced that District courts may intervene by injunction to protect NLRB from interference while cases are before the Board. In the case before Judge Dickinson last week, four A. F. of L. unions were interfering with NLRB...
...American who is a Jew"-so far as the referendum is concerned-is Dr. Cyrus Adler, archeologist, president of Jewish educational institutions in Manhattan and Philadelphia, and president of the American Jewish Committee. Founded in 1906. the Committee represents U. S. Jewry at its richest and most conservative, is non-Zionist, lukewarm toward boycotts and protests. Between President Adler and President Wise there is intense personal dislike. Last fortnight, speaking for his Committee and for "Americans who are Jews," Dr. Adler denounced Rabbi Wise's "Hitler plebiscite." In return, on Dr. Adler's home grounds in Philadelphia, Rabbi...
After 53 years of removing foreign objects from the stomachs and lungs of 50,000 patients (mostly children), Philadelphia's crack bronchoscopist, 72-year-old Dr. Chevalier Jackson, announced his imminent retirement, said he would spend the rest of his life lecturing to parents on leaving swallowable things about...