The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-01

Washington, Sept. - Narlout arguments were considered bS Roosevelt as he debated with him. self whether to veto the sugar bill oI let it ride.
 But one argument was nOt-the one put up by the continental U. s. refiners' lobby to the effect that well-paid American labor would be placed in further competition with lOw-paid, sweated, tropical labor if quota restrictions on ter- ritoriaI Puerto RiCan and Hawai- ian refined sugar were not kept in the bill.
 The government countered thi' argument by proposing to insert wage and hour standards applicable to all sugar ref1neries under thu American flag.
 Lobbyists and their congressiona sympathizers promptly turned that one down. Government forces ex. plain by saying that if the sweat. ed tropical labor" issue had beer removed, continental reflners woulc have been left with practically nc argument except that they wanted an effective monopoly.
 THE MAN BEHIND .... .. .I
 Behind the government strategy as related to the Hawaiian Puerto Rican restrictions was Jerome Frank, brilliant former genera counsel for AAA now practicini law in New York.
 He had supervised framing of the present sugar act, but was kicked out because he crusaded too forcefuIIy on behalf of farm CTS and consumers as against mid- dIe men in food industries. Sec- retary Ickes and Franks friend, Dr. Ernest Gruening, chief of ter ritOries and possessions, asked Frank to come back and help them defend interests and rights of the islands.
 Frank had been offered huge fees to represent Hawaiian pro. ducers, in whose cause he believed and had turned them down. Wher the chance came to do the same job gratis, with no possibility that he could be called a lobbyist sell. ing his government experience Frank gladly Jumped into the fight on that basis while @ dozen othel former AAA men worked as pro or con lobbyists for high fees. Court Ceremony
 The news men and photogra' phers who stood outside Sen ate Secretary Ed Halsey's offict while-as they learned many huri later-Senator Hugo Black was be- ing sworn in as Supreme Court justice, supposed the notable oc- casion had been carefully planned and prepared.
 As a matter of fact, it was only spur f-the-moment idea on Blacks part.
 Black had come up from his of- flee in the Senate's Education ant Labr Committee to greet anC congratulate Mrs. Dixie Bibk Graves as her husband, the gov. ernor of Alabama, handed her ere. dentials as the new senator re. placing Black.
 Suddenly Black said:
 "Tm here, Ed Halsey's here. We're all here. Why not get 8 man to swear me in and let's get the whole business over right now. I've got to so to Baltimore to sec my boy in the hospital tomorrow, anyway"
 So Halsey telephoned next dool for Charles F. Pace, for decade. the Senate paymaster and a no tary public. The job was don' promptly.
 Black left hurriedly with Halsey refusing to talk or to be photo graphed. Only five or six persons knew he was then a Suprem, Court justice and none told unti late in the evening. Black, al though he bod posed dozens O times in the previous few days has refused to be photographed O interviewed ever since he donnet the judicial robes.
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