Word: vinson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Invite Anarchy. Chief Justice Vinson was among the dissenters; since no one in the lower courts had questioned the point, he denied the right of the Supreme Court to "ferret out" the judge's instructions and attack them. He thought this was meddling with state courts...
Dwight Eisenhower, according to Bridge Expert Ely Culbertson, is a tough man across the bridge table: "Classic, sound, with occasional flashes of brilliance." Chief Justice Fred M. Vinson (Ike's sometime partner) also rated with Expert Culbertson as "the best player on the Supreme Court or any other." Army Chief of Staff General Omar Bradley was acknowledged "an outstanding strategist; he takes more chances than Eisenhower." Tops on Culbertson's list of Government players: Major General A. M. Gruenther, of the Joint Chiefs of Staff...
...Washington cronies who knew Ed as Fred Vinson's righthand man in the Office of Economic Stabilization-and as a social lion, a self-appointed oracle and a Source Close to the White House-raised their eyebrows. Prichard would not talk about the case; he said only that he was innocent and wanted a speedy trial...
Georgia's crafty Carl Vinson hit the roof. As chairman of the House Armed Services Committee he had been getting hotter & hotter at Johnson's methods. After a hurried visit to Johnson's office, he came back to Capitol Hill with Johnson's abject surrender in writing-and to be sure about it, read it into the record on the House floor...
...Vinson, whose, judgment Thursday throw the Poonsters into a deep quandry, was unavailable for comment last night. "I have nothing to say," he alleged. "No comment...