The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-15

 ecoi1crnic and social thinkers in Washington, but has somehow es- capped the fire and fury of the op- position while much less Leftist figures have been bounded and blasted. A former corporation lawyer and utility director, as a government attorney he has been one of the most aggressive and effective foes of these interests in the country.
 And finally Jackson, devoid of political pull or power, has risen in three years through sheer bril- liance of ability in an atmosphere surcharged with politics. From a modest private practice in James, town, N. F., he rose to senior as- sistant attorney general, third in rank in the justice department.
 That is a long way to go from scratch in so short a time. But keep your eye on this personable young man. In the next three years he will go much further. Governor of New York, cabinet member, justice of the supreme court-anyons of them is a good bet.
 Knew He Was Good
 The capital has just begun to realize how good a man Jack son is. President Roosevelt and Secretary Henry Morgenthau have known it for long time.
 As governor of New York Roose- welt appointed JacKson to special commission to study the states courts. Another member of the group was Herman O. Oliphant, of Johns- Hopkins university, now general counsel of the Treasury. The two men turned in a report that made legal history.
 When Morgenthau assumed the Treasury portfolio in 1884, one of the first things that Jackson did was to pick up the Mellon tax evasion suit where a burgh grand jury had dropped Pittsburgh grand jury had dropped it.
 Some months previous the jury had refused to indict the one time secretary of the treasury and ambassador to Great Britain on criminal charges. Jackson re- opened the case in 8 $3,0,0O0 tax recovery and penalty suit, and fought it through various court actions to a showdown in the U. s. Board of Tax Appeals, which has been deliberating the matter for more than a year.
 With this fussillade as starter, Jackson swung into high gear as a New Deal crusader.
 Many Crusades
 He had an important part in the drafting of the violently op- posed Stock Exchange regulation and Holding Company Acts, and in the 1885 and 1886 tax laws. When the fight over the first two measures shifted to the courts, he became the governments ace sharpshooter on that firing line. In lower federal courts in Balti- more, New York and Washington, and before the Supreme Court, he battled the market operators and utilities to a stand-still in their desperate efforts to tie up the enforcement of the statutes.
 Jackson's advancement in rank kept pace with the en- largement of his activities. From the Internal Revenue Bureau he was elevated to as- sistant attorney general in charge of the tax division. Last winter he was promoted to senior assistant attorney general in command of the antitrust division.
 In this position Jackson again cracked down on Uncle Andy" Mellon, this time with an anti trust prosecution against the Aluminium Company of America. In the intervals between handling the trial work on this case and another big antitrust suit in Wisconsin against a number of oil companies, Jackson has argued the governments case before the supreme COurC on the SOclal Se- curity Law and several other acts.
 We'll Dressed Radical
 There is nothing of the wild- eyed radical about Jackson.
 Of middle height, slender, and good looking, he dresses well, is an excellent dancer and an accom- plished horseman. With his wife, son and daughter, he lives on a lovely country estate in nearby Maryland. Mrs. Jackson is enc of the most attractive and viva cious women in Washington. His daughter is an even better eques- trian than he is.
 Of Dutch extraction, Jackson