Word: courts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Unimportant to Joe Kennedy was his garb: Important was the bulging briefcase he clutched in one freckled hand - the fruit of a year's diplomatic ferreting in London's Whitehall by the U. S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's. After a quick change Mr. Kennedy zipped to the White House. It was before 10 a. m., when Franklin Roosevelt goes to the Executive Office. Bobbing in his blue uniform, 68-year-old Negro Butler Charles Green grinned a welcome, threw open both White House doors to grinning Mr. Kennedy...
...Franklin Roosevelt had a long talk with Supreme Court Justice William Orville Douglas few days back. Its gist, as freely reported in inner circles: That the President solemnly told Mr. Douglas that he was the Crown Prince & Heir Apparent to the New Deal but that his election in 1940 is an impracticable dream...
...weeks ago, the Mavericks gathered in a San Antonio court. Albert Maverick's boy Maury was in trouble. Dr. George Maverick came all the way from New York, smoked his pipe with an air of "I'm here if needed." Pretty Maverick girls flashed hot glances at anti-Mavericks...
...President's tribute to the former Law School professor and present Supreme Court Justice was one of the many features of the album. It declared, "Felix Frankfurter has for years devoted his wide sympathies, his great energies, and his deep learning to the development and training of an enlightened and public spirited...
...discussing Frankfurter's policies, Laski stated, "By the general public, Mr. Justice Frankfurter is regarded as likely to be a radical influence on the Supreme Court. It is perhaps permissible to suggest that this is a wrong approach to his philosophy of the judicial function. His effort has always been to persuade the Supreme Court to the realization that it is the road to creativeness as well as an obstacle to particular types of experiment. He has sought, like the two great predecessors in whose place he now sits, to warn the Court against becoming the third, and final chamber...