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...recalled that he had received a report on White Feb. 6, 1946, the same day on which the Senate confirmed White's appointment to the Monetary Fund. White had previously been Assistant Secretary of the Treasury under Fred M. Vinson...
...James Forrestal, Assistant Secretary of State Spruille Braden; on Feb. 20, 1946: the President's Chief of Staff, Fleet Admiral William Leahy; on Feb. 26: War Department G-2 (later Chief of Air Staff) Lieut. General Hoyt Vandenberg; on March 5: Treasury Secretary (later U.S. Chief Justice) Fred Vinson; on March 15: the chief State Department security officer. Fred Lyon. Brownell also produced a note from the FBI, which accompanied Tom Clark's copy of the second report on White. Said the note: "... I have taken the liberty to similarly inform Brigadier General Harry Hawkins Vaughan...
...court. The same Herbert Brownell had recommended the appointment of Warren to President Eisenhower and had been the first to tell Warren that he would be appointed. The President had assigned Brownell to the task of searching for a new Chief Justice soon after the death of Fred M. Vinson (TIME, Sept. 21). Brownell immediately began seeking a man with judicial experience. He did not find one who, in his opinion, fitted...
From the day Chief Justice Fred Vinson died, four weeks ago, newsmen have been trying to find out who Vinson's successor would be. Everything pointed to Warren, but no reporter could pin down the story. Fortnight ago, when Attorney General Herbert Brownell flew to California to see Warren, the San Francisco Examiner's alert Political Editor Clint Mosher said flatly that Warren would be named to the court within 24 hours. Brownell himself threw cold water on the prediction. The afternoon he returned to Washington and saw Ike, he told reporters: "I have made no recommendation...
...late Chief Justice Fred M. Vinson, who held the highest legal post in the land, died without leaving a valid will. He had written wills in 1928 and 1930, but neither had witnessing signatures. At probate court in Washington, it was disclosed that Vinson, after a lifetime of Government service, left an estate of $7,163, debts...