Word: solicitor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Justice Roberts will set a precedent for the Supreme Court, despite the fact that in 1938 Stanley Reed was a judge in the Ames Competition when he was still Solicitor General of the United States and his nomination to the Supreme Court had not yet been confirmed by the Senate...
Friends of the Supreme Court in this case were SEC, ICC, Solicitor General Robert H. Jackson. Mr. Douglas thought the Court's friends were right, that the common stockholders had pulled a fast one on the preferred, ruled that they could get their foot inside the door of the reorganized company only if they paid their way in with new money. The decision thus strengthened the hands of bondholders, preferred stockholders in future reorganizations. Wrote Mr. Justice Douglas...
...Solicitor General Robert Jackson got an ovation when he cried: "They [Republicans] have struck at Roosevelt. But what they have hit is the American people. . . . The third-term demand is the people's answer to the efforts of reactionary politicians to eliminate the Roosevelt ideas from the 1940 campaign...
...laws breed litigation, and a great invisible subsidy of the New Deal has been enjoyed by the legal profession. No one knows this better than Lawyer Robert Houghwout Jackson, now Solicitor General. Painfully consistent in his New Dealism was he last week when, addressing the Junior Bar Conference (lawyers under 36) at San Francisco, he put his profession on notice as follows...
...London, Marion Lovell, a onetime chorine who had run to fat, got so mad she bounced up & down on her boardinghouse bed, finally broke it. When her landlady sued her, her solicitor pleaded: "She is rather a heavy woman; she will obviously need a fairly substantial bed." But Bouncer Lovell...