Word: generalizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Attorney General Frank Murphy, whose sister calls him Christlike, last week named the man to run his new Civil Liberties Unit: Henry A. Schweinhaut, the special assistant who prosecuted civil-liberties violations in Harlan County, Ky. and in Jersey City. Besides protecting liberty's delicate flower, Mr. Murphy last week received the grubbier task of rooting evil weeds out of the Federal judiciary...
President Roosevelt, incensed by what New York District Attorney Thomas Dewey discovered about Circuit Court Judge Martin T. Manton, who resigned in disgrace last fortnight (TIME, Feb. 6), instructed his Attorney General to see if any more U. S. judges were taking "loans" from litigants or otherwise besmirching their robes. Only the President politely put it the other way around: where else were efforts being made to "influence" the Federal judiciary...
After a sharp radiogram from Brien McMahon, criminal division chief in the Attorney General's Office, Judge Thomas snorted that a subpoena was unnecessary, promised to debark in the Canal Zone and return immediately if necessity demanded. Though Federal authorities said they wanted Judge Thomas and his books chiefly for the Manton investigation, they confessed their interest in a case from Judge Thomas' own court: the McKesson & Robbins receivership that exploded the notorious Coster-Musica drug scandal (TIME...
...dismissed as "unsound," flourished more vigorously than ever in the soil of senile insecurity. Dr. Townsend, still promising up to $200 a month to be raised by a hazy "transactions tax," sat in Washington waiting to be called by the committee. Meantime, his organization's chief rival, the General Welfare Federation of America, got its crack at the committee last week...
Founded by a dissident Townsendite named Arthur L. Johnson, General Welfare Federation now maintains the only year-round old-age-pension lobby in Washington. The General Welfare Act it proposes, promising $60 at 60, is based on a gross income tax of persons and firms, exempting only sums paid out in wages, taxes and interest. The plan is modeled after taxes now levied in Indiana and Hawaii, and the federation calculates it could raise $7,000,000,000 a year for pensions in the U.S. The General Welfare Act has 100 pledged supporters in the present Congress. Two of them...