Word: roosevelt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even in the age of declining Supreme Court prestige, the appointment had its note of irony. In Franklin Roosevelt's vain but tumultuous campaign to pack the nation's highest court with added New Dealing justices, no man raised a louder voice for the White House enterprise than burly, boot-jawed "Shay" Minton. As a result of his signal service, he had been mentioned for just about every vacancy on the court that turned up in the past decade. But until Harry Truman broke the news last week, his name had hardly entered the speculation this time. Battle...
...Senate, Minton lasted only one term but as a reward for faithful service President Roosevelt gave him an appointment as one of his six "anonymous assistants." In 1941 Roosevelt appointed him to the seventh U.S. circuit court of appeals. As a judicial interpreter of the Constitution, he seemed to tone down some of his ideas and he established a reputation as a competent and liberal-minded judge, if no legal world-shaker...
...recommend him. Always more a teacher than a practicing lawyer, he had made one reputation as a scholarly law-school dean before he came to Washington, made another on the bench there as an able, hard-working judge. So on Feb. 15, 1943, hearty, dignified Wiley Rutledge became Franklin Roosevelt's eighth and final appointee to the Supreme Court...
...Eleanor Roosevelt paid a visit to the Little White House in Warm Springs, Ga., her first trip back since April...
Cinemactress Faye Emerson Roosevelt, third wife of Elliott for nearly five years, announced that she was getting a divorce just as soon as she finished work on her current movie, Guilty Bystander...