Word: solicitor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After the Court adjourned, Solicitor General Robert Houghwout Jackson announced that the outstanding case on the Supreme Court calendar-another hearing on the constitutionality of TVA-had been postponed until mid-November. Mr. Jackson was a little jocose. He said he and his friends were "not unappreciative of the compliment implied'' by New York Republicans in choosing as their candidate for Senator a member of "the legal staff of this Administration"-Lawyer John Lord O'Brian of Buffalo (see p. 12}. The shoe was really on the other foot: Lawyer O'Brian also served...
Bradford served his worldly apprenticeship as secretary (1931-34) to Democratic Governor Ely, Eliot as assistant solicitor in the U. S. Department of Labor, where he helped write the Social Security Act. Now these almost identical twins, self-consecrated to the cause of better government, are both in politics under opposite labels. In Middlesex County, in which one-quarter of Massachusetts' people live, a better element group, determined to oust Republican District Attorney Warren L. Bishop, whom they accuse of backsliding, drafted Republican Bob Bradford to run against him in the primaries September 20. In the 9th Congressional District...
Origin of the Purge. One evening late last winter, Harry Hopkins called the following men to his house in George town: PWAdministrator Harold Ickes, Assistant to the Attorney General Joseph Keenan, Solicitor General Robert Houghwout Jackson, Assistant WPAdministrator David Niles, Presidential Secretary James Roosevelt, and two more : sometimes called "Washington Service Station,'' "The Twins of Evil," etc., but better identified as the Administration's unofficial legal firm, Corcoran & Cohen. These persons, with one or two more (see col. 2) constitute what in President Jackson's time was called the Kitchen Cabinet. No name more colorful than...
...Farley, converted last fortnight to the Purge-wherever it has a chance of working-remains Janizary No. 2 ex-officio, but his duties as Democratic National Chairman are gentle and routine, such as running to New England last week to beg Maine to "get in step." Solicitor General Jackson, now busy getting ready for the Monopoly Investigation, for a time was Janizary No. 3, but none of these can match in energy, facility or ubiquitousness the front man in the firm of Corcoran & Cohen. With nothing to tie him down except a general job on RFC's legal staff...
...Monopoly Investigating Committee. Armed with subpoenas which they were instructed not to use unless necessary, SEC agents started looking into insurance investment practices (TIME, July 25), and Department of Justice agents delved into a study of patents. Two pronouncements this year by President Roosevelt, plus recommendations by Solicitor General Jackson and ex-Assistant Secretary of State Berle, indicate that the 100-year-old patent laws are due for an overhauling-if evidence confirms such suspicions as that big corporations suppress patents to block new products...