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...when on his week-end yachting trip he was joined by Governor Murphy of Michigan who flew to join him on the Presidential yacht. On the endless list of Court possibilities drawn up by the quidnuncs of the press, the name of Frank Murphy stood beside such others as Solicitor General Stanley Reed, Federal Judges Sam Gilbert Bratton (onetime U. S. Senator from New Mexico), Joseph C. Hutcheson Jr. of Houston, Texas, Florence Allen of Columbus, Law Professors Felix Frankfurter of Harvard, Lloyd Garrison of Wisconsin...
Scrupulously Mr. Clark pointed out that his "visitors" would not constitute a link with the Federal Government. Having served the State Department for eleven years as solicitor, legal representative, Under Secretary (under Herbert Hoover) and finally as the late Dwight Morrow's successor as Ambassador to Mexico, Mr. Clark well knows that any hint that his dunning agency was an arm of the U. S. Government would play ned with the New Deal's good neighbor foreign policy. Chief job of Mr. Clark's visitors will be to assure the public that the Council is not linked...
...only switched affiliation from the American Federation of Labor to the militant Committee for Industrial Organization, but served notice that it was out for industrial bear by voting 118 ½-to-18 ½ for industrial unionization- which would mean eventual Guild membership for every last copy boy, circulation solicitor and advertising stenographer in a newspaper plant (TIME, June 21). Hardly had word of this bold decision dried on the front pages of the nation's press than the publishers answered the challenge. Goaded to action by chesty little James Geddes ("Jimmy") Stahlman, publisher of the Nashville Banner and newly...
...Post Office has lately softened its harsh attitude toward the lines, gone out of its way to give them what they asked. Example was permission to United Air Lines last month to fly into Denver (TIME, May 10). To make this new service jibe with the Air Mail Act, Solicitor Karl A. Crowley had to devise a totally new concept-that an airline is a "zone of influence" instead of a geometric line. Last week Post Office men in Washington revealed that they will soon advertise for bids for a number of important new airmail routes, one of which...
...moment, Washington's chief interest centred on the question of who should succeed Justice Van Devanter. Immediately dopesters trotted out the names they have been considering ever since Court enlargement was proposed: James McCauley Landis of SEC, Donald Richberg, Solicitor General Stanley Reed, Felix Frankfurter and many another. Within 24 hours, however, one name had leaped to a prominence which dwarfed all other prospects, that of Senator Joseph Taylor Robinson of Arkansas. The President is supposed to have assured him several times over that he could have the first vacancy on the Court. Senators, not only Democrats but Republicans...