Word: vinson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...noon when the court crier raised his sepulchral voice: "Oyez, oyez . . . draw near . . . God save the United States and this Honorable Court." Red curtains parted and into the hushed chamber walked the black-gowned justices of the Supreme Court of the U.S. Led by sad-faced Chief Justice Vinson, they took their high-backed seats, variously shaped and padded to fit their various curves...
...members were ex-lawyers and ex-law professors; only two of them (Vinson and Rutledge, who had served on the Court of Appeals) had had any previous experience on the bench. As Supreme Court justices they were young (average age, 59)-Seven of them, the largest number of appointees by one President since Washington, owed their jobs to Franklin Roosevelt. The Nine in the order of their appointments...
...Fred Vinson, third of the Kentucky-born justices, an authority on taxes when he served in Congress, a troubleshooter...
...This is not going to be a whitewash," promised Georgia's tough old Carl Vinson. "Let the chips fall where they will." As soon as his Armed Services Committee could round up a staff of investigators, he was going to find out just what lay behind the rumors of skulduggery in procurement of the Air Force...
...first charge to be answered was whether anybody had benefited personally or politically by the choice of the B-36 (TIME, June 6). In a letter he delivered personally to Chairman Vinson, Air Secretary Stuart Symington categorically denied this "basic innuendo." Every airplane the Air Force had ordered, wrote Symington, and every step in the B-36 program had been approved by the nation's top air commanders. At no time had "any higher authority attempted to recommend in any way the purchase of any airplane." As to reports that his own efforts in behalf...