Word: solicitor
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Last week in Washington the Senate Judiciary Committee, after a month of intensive investigation of its subject, handed in a favorable report on the nomination of Mr. Jackson to the post of U. S. Solicitor General. Not in the least perturbed by the committee's minority view, that the characteristically Rooseveltian opinions Mr. Jackson has expressed in recent speeches and in Committee hearings made him unfit for the job, the Senate heard Nebraska's Norris say that he wished Mr. Jackson were being nominated for even higher office, shortly confirmed...
Next day, after the Jackson appointment had thus been crowned with success, it became apparent that the Senate would presently have a chance to investigate another appointee, compared to whom Mr. Jackson is a hidebound Tory. As the new Solicitor General was sworn in. Attorney General Cummings announced his choice for Mr. Jackson's successor in the Department of Justice : Thurman Wesley Arnold...
...Confirmed the appointment of Robert Houghwout Jackson as U. S. Solicitor General...
...dinner of the Young Democratic Club of New York, where rumor says he has aims at being Governor, Franklin Roosevelt's trust-busting protege, Solicitor General-designee Robert Houghwout Jackson, spoke to Business in more conciliatory terms than usual: "The business man is not easily interested in distant reforms if he is showing losses from quarter to quarter. But the Government, whose first duty is to preserve the future of the nation, has to try to live, not from quarter to quarter, not even from decade to decade, but actually from generation to generation...
This week the case began to be argued in the Court by onetime Solicitor General Thomas D. Thacher and John F. MacLane (both of Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett) for the utilities, Solicitor General-nominee Robert Jackson and Ben Cohen for the Government. Meanwhile, in Chicago, SEC Chairman William 0. Douglas argued the case before the Commonwealth Club: "I am shocked at the far-flung cry of 'Wolf, wolf' from the mouths of management over the grave dangers of the misnamed 'death sentence,' for I know the fears which that spectre generates in investors. And I know...