Word: vinson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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WASHINGTON, November 12--In its first post-election session, the Supreme Court failed today to hand down any decisions, and attorneys speculated that the new Chief Justice, Fred M. Vinson, may be having trouble restoring harmony among the tribunal's feuding factions...
...Fred Vinson...
...Treasury-John Snyder for Fred Vinson, who had succeeded F.D.R.'s Henry Morgenthau (the gain that was Vinson was lost...
Byron ("Whizzer") White, All-America halfback, Rhodes scholar and Navy hero, who forsook professional football's enticements ($15,000 a season) to study law, got the job most coveted by fledgling barristers. The job: clerk to Fred M. Vinson, Chief Justice...
Bothering neither to conceal his own indignation nor protect the dignity of the highest court, Justice Jackson called in newspaper correspondents to tell them about it. He ended his extraordinary statement piously: "It is desirable to get the controversy all back of us now so that he [Vinson] can take up his tasks without a cloud hanging over the court...