Evening star., 1937-03-04
.L|BERALS.L|STED
FOR COURT CALL
Roosevelt Seen as Ready to
Name at Least One From
Group of Six.

(Copyrisht. 1887. by the Associated PressD
II fate or Congress gives President
Roosevelt any Supreme Court appoint
ments, he has six men on tap who
bear both New Deal and liberal labels.
All are lawyers with fair for "hu-
man rights"
It's more than an even bet in the
Capital that at least one Of these
would get the nod from the White
House for a seat If the chance comes.
They are:
James McCauIey Landis-37, medi-
UNI height, sharp features quit
the Securities and Exchange Commits
sion in January to become dean OF
Harvard Law School :. an expert in
labor law and business regulation
technically Democrat, but he doesn't
work hard at politics born in Toxic
of Presbyterian missionary stock and
brought up in MercerSburg Academy,
Princeton and Harvard shy in
public but an accomplished parlor
trickster once served as personal
clerk for famous Supreme Court lib
eral, Brandeis his al revoir to
Capital: I'll keep step with the
(RooSevelD parade and perhaps do a
little work if they call on me-"
Ferdinand Pecora-55, of medium
height, heavy underslung jaw, dlsarm-
ing smile holds $22,500 a year
New York City Supreme Court judge
ship tcircuit judgeship elseWhere) 49,.
gained the national eye when he bad
gered the Morgan money bags in Sem
ate stock market investigation two
years ago cracked poultry and
bucketshop racketS in New York {.
was a Teddy Roosevelt fan, but has
been a Democrat since 1918. native
of Nicosia, Sicily. graduate of Lower
East Side sweatshops, New York Law
School and district attorneys office
.. once studied for the ministry 80.
would sacrifice $4,000 year if he
donned Supreme Court robe.
Donald r. Richberg-55, neo-bald,
pudgy ran the N. r. A. show as
legal counsel :. won news mems title
general manager of the United States"
when Roosevelt made him co-ordi-
mating director of the flrSt-term In
dustrial Emergency Council E. grad
uate of University of Chicago. Har-
ward and a partnership in law firm
OF Harold L. IckeS, Secretary of Inte-
rior >. a Bull Mooser of violent con-
victions in 1912 and liberal Repub-
Gcan ever since . . born in Knox
vile, Tenn, but has been Chicagoan
most of his life.
John G. Winant-48, tall, extremely
modest . assisted in directing inter-
national labor Office in Geneva. re-
signing to start the RooSeveltian
Social Security Board on its way .
quit board early this year to attend to
private affairs :. native of New York
City but a resident most of his life of
Concord, N. H, from where he went
to the governorship on a Republican
ticket three times :. his New Hamp-
shire share -the-work program is cred
tied as egg that Matched N. R. AS blue
eagle he commanded Eighth
Aerial Observation squadron in World
War . returned to academic shelter
afterward but the political bug soon
got him.
Samuel 1. Rosenman-41, stocky,
shy =. he's New York City Supreme
Court Judge and was counsel to
Roosevelt when the latter was New
York's governor has marked jul
dicial temperament and is one of the
few men Roosevelt has dubbed strong
right arm" stays at the White
House often and probably evolved
much of Presidents Supreme Court
plan bears questioned distinction
OF being father of brain trust idea
). not too popular with Tammany
Hall he's a movie and stage fan
.. quit golf several years ago.
Robert II. Jackson-45. likes to be
known as a cracker-jack small towr
lawyer :. he's from jamestown, N. Y
and is protege of Treasury Secretary
Henry Morgenthau became AS
sistant Attorney General in 1886
prosecuted the income tax cases
against Andrew Mellon -. authored
the Wisecrack, Its Mr. Melons
creed that s2OO,OOO.OO0 can do no
wrong; our defense consists of doubt
ing it" sued Electric Bond and
Share for government to force that
utility giant to comply with new hold
ing company act . doesn't think so
very well of lawyers :. warns against
dictatorship when free government
becomes too perplexing."