Word: specializes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...weeks' work (at $100 a week) as "special representative" of the Federal Housing Administration. After that he became just a figure to be pointed out as a privileged visitor to the Senate floor, where he spent wistful hours in the background. Men shook their heads and said that old Tom had hit hard times...
...drew enough votes from Boss J. Henry Roraback's candidates to insure some New Deal successes, although Gubernatorial Candidate L&233;vitt himself got only about 10,000 votes. For his services the New Deal, in a hasty move, took Mr. L&233;vitt to Washington as a special assistant to Attorney General Homer Cummings, himself a onetime Connecticut politician. Before long, zealous Dr. L&233;vitt was circularizing Connecticut voters with an appeal to form a new party, inviting replies to be addressed to him at the Department of Justice. The Democratic Administration eyed this move with disfavor...
...Homer Cummings had by no means been stung for the last time by Gadfly L&233;vitt. Last January, restless as ever, Mr. Cummings' special assistant slipped into a Senate Committee hearing to oppose unsuccessfully the permanent appointment of Governor Cramer, ask an investigation in the Virgin Islands. Said Mr. Cummings: "I can sum up my attitude in three words: I am disgusted...
...Court." In its stead the A. B. A. adopted a resolution to petition the U. S. Senate to hold public hearings on all future judicial appointments. Dead set against the President's Court Plan and fearful of his efforts to revive it. the Association voted to appoint a Special Commission of seven members to report any further efforts to enlarge the Supreme Court to the A. B. A. for a referendum, devote itself to maintaining "an independent and untrammeled judiciary...
...More than any one else I am in a position to appreciate the tragedy of Japan's aggression against China, for I know China was on the high road to great progress when hostilities broke out. My special part in building up of the nation was to assist my husband in creating a New Life movement and to help reorganize the air force...