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...other Cabinet officials were out of town) and Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black. There were also so many Army officers and so many others friends & relatives that Louis Johnson had to hold the affair in his big conference room. Did Mr. Pace promise to discharge his duties? rumbled Mr. Vinson. Said capable Frank Pace, in a loud, clear voice: "I do, so help me, God!" And in a short speech he added: "This occasion is only possible because of the man in the White House, President Truman, for whom I have the greatest possible affection . . . I will give unstintingly...
...than attends a taxicab wedding in Las Vegas, Nev.-a routine swearing-in, generally in Louis Johnson's Pentagon office dining room, congratulations from several dozen officeholders, kisses from relatives, and bored coverage by a handful of newsmen. But things were different last week when Chief Justice Fred Vinson administered the oath of office to lanky Frank Pace Jr., 37, new Secretary of the Army...
...cronies, Chief Justice Fred M. Vinson and ex-Presidential Adviser Clark Clifford, arrived over the weekend, and with them a tropical electrical storm. Clifford's arrival was embarrassingly ill-timed. The same day newspapers reported that he had landed his first big legal fish since leaving the White House: he had been hired as lawyer for Howard Hughes's T.W.A., whose struggle against Pan American for world air routes will ultimately be settled by the President. The President paid no heed either to the unfriendly weather or to Clifford's awkward status. He had paper work...
Like It or Lump It. The U.P.'s Merriman Smith fired the first question. Had the President been correctly quoted about the possibility of still sending Chief Justice Vinson on a mission to Moscow? Truman asked sharply whether Smith had read the quotation in the story in the press, told him to read it again...
...Only four Representatives, all Democrats, have been in Congress longer: Illinois' Sabath, since 1907; North Carolina's Doughton, since 1911; Texas' Rayburn, since 1913; Georgia's Vinson, since...