Word: senting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...political fight of the century. That the fight was a blunder became apparent last summer when the President lost it. That it was also totally unnecessary became apparent last week when Supreme Court Justice George Sutherland called reporters into his office to show them a letter he had just sent the President. The letter: ". . . Being eligible for retirement under the Sumners Act ... I hereby retire from regular active service on the bench, this retirement to be effective . . . the 18th day of January...
Born in England, reared in Utah which sent him to the Senate in 1905 and 1911, slim, grey-bearded old Justice Sutherland voted against the New Deal in twelve important Court decisions before he wrote last fortnight a unanimous opinion sustaining the Government's right to finance power plants with PWA funds. In retirement, he will live in Washington, stand ready to serve occasionally in crowded lower courts-like Justice Van Devanter (see p. 18). Since all eight remaining Justices, except Minnesota's Butler, come from East and South, it seemed a virtual certainty that Justice Sutherland...
Carrying out his predicted shift in the U. S. diplomatic corps, President Roosevelt last week sent to the Senate his recommendations that 1) trouble-shooting Joseph Patrick* Kennedy-succeed the late Robert Worth Bingham in London, 2) Assistant Secretary of State Hugh R. Wilson succeed anti-Nazi Professor William E. Dodd in Berlin. When news of these appointments leaked out (TIME, Dec. 20), the scramble for embassy chairs left one diplomat awkwardly standing, Lawyer Joseph E. Davies. He had just returned from the Soviet Union to see the President and told the press: "I'll go anywhere the boss...
...this provided a chair for Joe Davies, it took one away from Careerist Hugh Gibson, who was sent to Belgium from Brazil only a few months ago. Letting Diplomat Gibson stand for the moment, the President filled a vacant chair by appointing Norman Armour, his successful Minister to Canada, to succeed retired Hoffman Philip as Ambassador to Chile...
Three days after Correspondent Matthews had returned to Barcelona to put his story on the wire the final break in the Rightist defense of Teruel's garrison came when the president of Teruel's Red Cross, Jesus Vinyas, sent a message asking that his wounded might be evacuated, Rightist civilians allowed to return to their homes or given passports to go abroad...