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Albert L&233;vitt is a Unitarian, a Republican, a World War veteran (wounded and gassed). He holds degrees from Meadville Theological School, Columbia (cum magnis honoribus), Harvard and Yale Universities. A hardy perennial in Connecticut politics, he regularly runs for the House of Representatives, the Senate or the Governorship, thus far without success. He used to conduct a permanent but unavailing crusade to oust the late J. Henry Roraback, Old Guard boss of Connecticut Republicanism. In between times Mr. L&233;vitt sought unsuccessfully to oust the Connecticut Public Utilities Commission. He is also a chronic letter-writer...
Until this week the sharpest turning point in the career of the Rev. Dr. Prof. L&233;vitt occurred in 1932 when his Independent Republican Party, with a Prohibition platform, drew enough votes from Boss J. Henry Roraback's candidates to insure some New Deal successes, although Gubernatorial Candidate L&233;vitt himself got only about 10,000 votes. For his services the New Deal, in a hasty move, took Mr. L&233;vitt to Washington as a special assistant to Attorney General Homer Cummings, himself a onetime Connecticut politician. Before long, zealous Dr. L&233;vitt was circularizing...
...Albert L&233;vitt was again a public official by the next year, when President Roosevelt sent him to the remote Virgin Islands as a judge. When he mounted the bench Mr. L&233;vitt told native judges who led lonely lives, not to mind if he appeared snobbish. Judge L&233;vitt was soon trying to subpoena Acting Governor Robert Herrick. After that he angrily charged Provisional Governor Lawrence W. Cramer with interference in the court, wrote out his resignation. Frustrated but undaunted, Mr. L&233;vitt returned to the U. S. and his old job in the Department...
...Homer Cummings had by no means been stung for the last time by Gadfly L&233;vitt. Last January, restless as ever, Mr. Cummings' special assistant slipped into a Senate Committee hearing to oppose unsuccessfully the permanent appointment of Governor Cramer, ask an investigation in the Virgin Islands. Said Mr. Cummings: "I can sum up my attitude in three words: I am disgusted...
Albert L&233;vitt resigned from the Department of Justice in August, perhaps for the last time. But he had yet another sting for Homer Cummings and the New Deal. Eight days after his resignation took effect, Lawyer L&233;vitt had popped up with a petition demanding that Nominee Hugo Black prove his eligibility to sit on the Supreme Court. Mr. L&233;vitt contended that Senator Black, by voting for the Supreme Court Retirement Act, had helped increase the emoluments of that office contrary to Article I, Section 6 of the Constitution...