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ALEXANDER WILEY Washington...
Sighs. Many a Senate Republican, moreover, seemed to be privately eulogizing himself and weighing a delicious suspicion that he might be the next President or Vice President. Wisconsin's Alexander Wiley, the new Republican chairman of the Judiciary Committee, was one who seemed thus slightly bemused. It did not affect his hardheadedness in promising to end the "grossly lopsided political character" which the federal bench had assumed under Democratic rule. But when a group of Wisconsin reporters asked his opinion of the coming presidential race he sighed and said: "As for me, my fate...
...left of center, feuds with Felix Frankfurter, who has surprised all his old New Deal friends by voting way to the right-where he usually has the company of Harold Burton. Appointment of William Douglas would give too much weight to the left (Douglas, Black, Murphy and Wiley Rutledge). Justice Reed, the nearest thing to a center of gravity, lacks the strong disciplinary hand needed to bring all this dissonance into harmony...
...Chicago's Union Station, amid the hurrying crowds, Marine veteran Alfred Wiley thrust magazines into the hands of his wife, handed candy bars to his two little sons. As he hoisted them aboard the Burlington's Advance Flyer, he kissed them all goodbye. At 12:35 p.m. the 13-car train pulled...
...Alfred Wiley was back at work in a diesel locomotive plant when he heard the fearful news. Frantically he borrowed a car, raced 28 miles to Naperville. First he went to the bloody emergency stations and a hospital teeming with injured. They weren't there. Then he went to Naperville's three mortuaries. Nothing at the first or second. At the third he found the bodies of his wife and two children...