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...Commerce immediately petitioned the Post Office to allow United to do the same for Denver. TWA and others protested violently, but Wyoming Air, the sole system which would be directly hurt, offered no objection because of an agreement with United. Last week, to everyone's surprise, Post Office Solicitor Karl A. Crowley decided in favor of the petition, set up a new and important ruling- that an airway was not to be considered a geometric line like train tracks but a "zone of influence." Therefore any airline should be allowed to serve communities within a reasonable distance...
...Washington Airport, whisked him off to be cajoled by that persuasive pleader, Franklin Roosevelt. As a final objection to being given the job, reluctant Joe Kennedy revealed that he has 1,100 shares of Todd Shipbuilding Corp. stock. Would not that prevent his choice? The President got the Solicitor General to rule that it would not, if the stock were, sold. The 48-year-old Irishman gave in, took the job on condition that he may quit as soon as it is running smoothly...
...power of the honored guests, were also at the table. Likewise Senator Borah, who had just stood up for the Court, Attorney General Cummings whom the Justices have often worsted, and several gentlemen who, although the august Justices did not know it, might soon be their colleagues, notably Solicitor General Stanley Forman Reed and Lawyer Donald Randall Richberg. Few of the guests had suspected that there was any special reason for the President's good humor, that within three days he was to shake his guests of honor in their seats...
...Houston are the only two Negroes ever to have served on the editorial board of the Harvard Law Review. He has taught law in Howard (Negro) University in Washington, practiced it with his cousin's Washington law firm, Houston & Houston. For the last three years as assistant solicitor of the Interior Department, he has done much work on the problems of the Virgin Islands with their nearly 95% Negro population. Light brown, quiet, studious, witty, an indefatigable worker, he was recommended by Secretary Ickes on merit...
...unscheduled feature of the finale, the participants were swamped with requests for their briefs from leading law firms in all parts of the country. One of these came from Stanley F. Reed Solicitor-General of the U. S., who will defend the government's case when the issue comes before the Supreme Court shortly...