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...White House last week went Vice President Curtis and several Republican Senators to warn President Hoover of the bitter contest brewing in the Senate over his nomination of Judge John Johnston Parker to the U. S. Supreme Court. Undaunted, the President emphasized his sturdy support of Judge Parker by issuing from the White House a lengthy memorandum prepared by Attorney General Mitchell defending Nominee Parker, explaining the legal necessities of disputed Parker decisions, calling objections " extraneous...
Showing that he was still an active and useful part of the administration, quieting rumors of fresh hostility between himself and President Hoover, Vice President Curtis carried important news last week from the Capitol to the White House. Against President Hoover's appointment of U. S. Circuit Judge John Johnston Parker of North Carolina to the Supreme Court was rising a tide of Senate opposition. It came from two quarters: 1) Union Labor, because in the Red Jacket coal case Judge Parker had sustained an injunction protecting a " yellow-dog" contract from the United Mine Workers of America;* 2) Negroes...
...example, newsgatherer Alva Johnston reported in the Herald Tribune that Dexter Fellowes had spent the winter buying mountains "to be sawed up into precipices for the new granite billboards, ranging in size from 140 acres to a square mile...
...President Hoover appointed U. S. Circuit Judge John Johnston Parker to the Supreme Court (see p. 16). Other appointments: Col. Guy Verner Henry to be the Army's Chief of Cavalry; Col. John Wylie Gulick to be the Army's Chief of Coast Artillery. Despite loud protest by some Washington citizens, the President named Major General Herbert Ball Crosby, retired, a District of Columbia Commissioner (TIME, Feb. 17). ¶ To the President was presented last week a report by his National Industrial Survey Conference to the effect that U. S. industry is gradually picking up the momentum...
Judge John Johnston Parker of the Fourth U. S. Circuit Court was talking to newsmen at his home in Charlotte, N. C. They clustered about him because President Hoover had just appointed him an associate justice of the U. S. Supreme Court, vice Edward Terry Sanford, deceased. Though 77 men have been elevated to the Supreme Court in its 141 years, only two came from North Carolina...