Word: robert
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Guffey, the President chose for the Third Circuit Court able Philadelphia Lawyer Francis Biddle, former chairman of NLRB and counsel to the Congressional investigators of TVA. To the seat vacated by "Borrowing" Circuit Judge Martin T. Manton in New York, he appointed on his own hook distinguished District Judge Robert P. Patterson, a Republican...
...Supreme Court to attack a foreign-born lunchroom proprietor of Hot Springs, Ark. in a case fateful for all alien radicals in the U. S. Important also for Franklin Roosevelt's Secretary of Labor were the Solicitor-General's arguments, for in attacking Radical Joe Strecker, able Robert Houghwout Jackson was clearing the name of Frances Perkins, against whom rested impeachment charges based on her alleged mollycoddling of an even more famed alien radical, Australia's and California's Harry Bridges. Two days after Miss Perkins told a House committee what an honest, patriotic woman...
...fifth floor of London's Park Lane Hotel was the U. S. delegation of Jews led by Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, just under their deadly enemies the Arabs, just above their equally deadly enemy, Nazi Labor Front Leader Robert...
With the help of Norma Shearer's much-publicized blonde wig, M.G.M. has produced an acceptable remake of Robert Shorwood's 1936 Broadway success, "Idiot's Delight." As a movie it has a high percentage of entertainment value, but it lacks the intellectual force of the stage production. The elements which made the play such a success on Broadway have been cut out, one by one, to sop rural box office, industrial interests, and Mussolini. With such a great amount of vitality drained from the original play, the movie cast has little substance upon which to build their characterizations. Burgess...
...weakest point on the team last week was in the 175-pound class, as Dunc Longcope wrestled his first varsity match. He lost, however, more from lack of experience than knowledge. And, while he has to face Robert Taylor, the captain of the Lions, he promises a good fight...