Word: seconds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...appointed to the Federal judiciary was William Henry Hastie, whom Franklin Roosevelt sent to the District Court of the racially scrambled Virgin Islands (TIME, Feb. 15, 1937). Judge Hastie resigned this year to become dean of Howard University's law school (Washington, D. C.). Last week came a second dispensation of this politically potent plum. Senator James Michael Slattery of Illinois, who needs the big Negro vote on Chicago's South Side for re-election next year to the seat he inherited from the late "J. Ham" Lewis, got it for his former assistant on the Illinois Commerce...
...Shelved in committee its $407,855,600 Rivers & Harbors (pork) bill, because on second thought it hadn't the heart to spend that much money ($324,000,000 more than the House voted) and didn't want to give Franklin Roosevelt such a set-up for a veto...
...General Motors. Mr. Knudsen insisted the NLRB, not G. M., must decide whether the U. A. W. of C. I. O. or the U. A. W. of A. F. of L. is in a majority. Robert J. Thomas, C. I. O. headman in U. A. W. also left. Second-stringers on both sides continued to sit in vain with Conciliator James F. Dewey of the Labor Department, who continued to spend his non-conciliating evening hours in the Motor Bar of the Book-Cadillac Hotel...
...Frying Pan circuit (half-mile tracks), got $5 a ride (when his employers paid off). In the flourishing Nineties, Jim Fitzsimmons became a pee-wee trainer. His big chance came in 1908 when betting was outlawed in New York, the topnotch U. S. trainers flocked to England, and the second-raters got a crack at the juicy training jobs at home...
...Wendell Willkie deserves most of the credit for winning them. Other businessmen have fought tongue-tied and embarrassed before the Congressional committee, have sued in the courts and taken their licking. In the courts Willkie has taken his beating with the rest, but he has seldom come off second best in sparring before committees or in political debate. Resourceful, informed, more publicly articulate than any big U. S. businessman today, he turned committee hearings into promotion for his own political-economic doctrines. He emerged from his fights bigger in public stature than he went...