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...Treasury-John Snyder for Fred Vinson, who had succeeded F.D.R.'s Henry Morgenthau (the gain that was Vinson was lost...
...Fred Vinson had scarcely got news of his new appointment-as the "peacekeeping" Chief Justice-when a sample of the thing which confronts him blew up in his face...
...situation called for a jurist who might be able to bring harmony out of dissonance, stand at the balancing center of gravity. After weeks of searching, middle-of-the-road Fred Vinson seemed to Harry Truman to be just the man, even though he was known as a tax expert and a skillful politicker rather than a jurist (he had spent five years on the U.S. Court of Appeals in the District of Columbia...
...Treasury. To succeed him in the Treasury, the President nominated the man who had twice before come in behind Vinson as he moved upward-Reconversion Boss John Wesley Snyder, a virtual unknown until Harry Truman moved to the White House. John Snyder and Harry Truman were buddies in World War I. They are the closest of cronies now. Perhaps that fact alone was enough for the President to pick him for the second "highest Cabinet post (and second in succession to the presidency...
Bothering neither to conceal his own indignation nor protect the dignity of the highest court, Justice Jackson called in newspaper correspondents to tell them about it. He ended his extraordinary statement piously: "It is desirable to get the controversy all back of us now so that he [Vinson] can take up his tasks without a cloud hanging over the court...