Word: vinson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Allen, now associate professor of Law at Northwestern University, specializes in criminal law. For two years he was Law Clerk to Chief Justice Fred M. Vinson of the United States Supreme Court...
...Washington, Chief Justice Fred Vinson, who swore in three new aides for the Attorney General, explained why he postponed the ceremony for 30 minutes: the twelve-year-old son of one of the new aides was scheduled to play with his school basketball team and also wanted to see his father take the oath. The Chief Justice agreed to wait until the game was over...
...clock. At 3:30 he watched benignly as seven members of his personal staff were sworn in. Two hours later, Ike walked over to a more elaborate ceremony in the great East Room of the White House. There, before full-length portraits of George & Martha Washington, Chief Justice Fred Vinson swore in the members of the Cabinet-plus Federal Security Administrator Oveta Gulp Hobby and minus unconfirmed Erwin Wilson. A Cabinet member's commission must be signed by the President and countersigned by the Secretary of State. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles was sworn first, and his commission...
Over the vast, silent crowd on Capitol Hill and through homes and offices across the land, the voice rang sharp & clear: "I, Dwight D. Eisenhower, do solemnly swear . . . [to] preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States-so help me God." Black-robed Chief Justice Vinson stepped back, and the new President of the U.S. stood alone...
...economy, economics were argued in terms of politics-first in the language of the social reformers, then of World War II's soldiers, and finally of the Marshall Planners and the diplomats. The succession of Treasury Secretaries-F.D.R.'s Henry Morgenthau and Truman's Fred Vinson and John Snyder-became, fiscally speaking, all but forgotten men themselves, charged mainly with paying the bills and borrowing money at the lowest possible interest rates...