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...EARL C. FRENCH...
...Eight seated themselves in the black leather chairs at the long mahogany bench; the ninth went with the clerk of the court to a desk beside the bench. After a brief opening ceremony, Clerk Harold B. Willey turned to the man at his side and administered an oath: "I, Earl Warren, do solemnly swear that I will administer justice without respect to persons, and do equal right to the poor and to the rich...
Then, in a borrowed robe (his new robe was not ready), Earl Warren stepped up to the bench and seated himself in the high-backed chair in its center. The U.S. had a new Chief Justice, and the U.S. Supreme Court was beginning...
...President and the Attorney General, Earl Warren seemed to be far & away the best man available. In addition to his administrative duties on the Supreme Court, the Chief Justice presides over the Judicial Conference of the U.S. (comprised of chief judges of the U.S. circuit courts), and thus has an administrative function over all of the nation's federal courts. Warren's knowledge of the problems of government and his administrative ability would serve him well in that phase of his work. In addition, his knack for pulling opposing forces together would help to prevent discord...
...When Earl Warren boarded an airliner and took off for Washington this week, a whole political era in California went with him. The independent Warren, who had built his political power on bipartisan support, turned the governorship over to Goodwin Jess Knight, a regular, conservative, organization Republican. The new governor, a back-thumping, bouncing lawyer of 56 who has served seven years as lieutenant governor, could not hope to win the Democrats who supported Warren. But the day Warren departed was a good day for "Goody" Knight. It meant that he will be running for governor next year...