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~s~SSSA e~SSANACy WC1C oCSCI al DOOhS Ull
/. the Supreme Court and on the legal
: problems of labor. He wrote, also,
/, on the Sacco-Vanzetti case and his
3 espousal of the two who died after
= conviction of murder in a Massa-
= chusetts car barn holdup, was among
: the factors which brought him some
9 part of reputation for radical
ISM"
Belongs Among Liberals.
. In any event, there has been no
q. question but that he belongs among
the liberals, fact proven in part by
the company he has kept Closest
! personal friends, for instance. were
j Supreme Court Justices Oliver
Wendell Holmes, Brandeis and Car
, dozo and for many years the bril-
liant Harvard professor has sent
brilliant Harvard students to Wash
ington to serve as secretaries to the
late Justice Holmes and to Justice
Brandeis.
Among his proteges in this regard
have been Thomas G. Corcoran, now
a White House adviser; Dean Ache
son, formerly Undersecretary of the
Treasury; James M. Lands, now
dean of the Harvard Law School
and formerly chairman of the Sc
curities and Exchange Commission
. and Calvert Magruder, now chief
counsel for the Wage and Hour
Division of the Department of Labor
, His sympathies with efforts to
hberalize the Supreme Court are re-
, f1ected in such writings as the fol-
lowing:
BY the very nature of its place
IN the scheme of government, the
Supreme Court is in the stream of
public affairs and its decisions are
/. entangled in political controversies.
ITO read the opinions of the court
. Is to move among the city councils,
public service commissions, tax
boards, Governors, State Legisla-
]. lures. Congress and the President.
THE court then exercises essen
! TALLY political functions"
Believer in Democracy.
The new justice also is a devout
believer in democracy, it appears
. from another excerpt from his
writings.
. Democracy is the only way" he
/ points out, rough as that may be,
to civilization that adequately re-
spects and thereby helps to un-
fold the richness of human di-
versity."
, Short and rather broad -shoul-
/ dered, he has thinning gray hair
! and bright blue eyes. Agile in
. mind and body, he seldom relaxes
(, except to read or listen to fine
, music. He takes little physical ex-
! ercise in the sport category, smokes
! only moderately and uses liquor
! temporarily.
. Served Term in Senate.
Former Senator Pope, the new T.
v. A. appointee, served a single
! term in the Senate, being defeated
!, Tor denomination in the primaries
. last year by Representative D.
Worth Clark, although he had the
. backing of the administration.
/. A lawyer, Mr.. Pope is So years
old. While in the Senate he took a
deep interest in international af-
: fairs. being member of the For
! eign Relations Committee.
! On the Tennessee Valley Author
, lty Mr.. Pope will serve the unex-
pired term of DR.. Arthur E. Morgan,
whose resignation as chairman was
forced by President Roosevelt as the
result of dissension in the Authority.
The term ends in May, 1912.
Long List of Nominees.
Other nominations sent to the
Senate today by the President were:
John G. Wiley of Indiana, to be
Minister to Latvia and Estonia;
Brig. Gen. Henry H. Arnold, to be
chief of the Army Air Corps with
rank of major general; Col. Waite,
@. Kilner, assistant chief with rank
OF brigadier general; Coils. Walter
H. Frank and Herbert A. Dargue
wing commanders, with rank OF
brigadier general.
Francis w. Reichelderfer, Indiana
chief of the United States Weather
Bureau; Clinton M. Hester, Mon
tana, administrator, Civil Aeronau.
tics Authority, and the following tc
be members of that authority
Harllee Branch, Georgia; Robert H
Hinckley, Utah; Oswald Ryan, In
diana; G. Grant Mason, jr., District
of Columbia, and Edward j. Noble
Connecticut.
Sumpter Smith, Alabama, member
: Of the Air Safety Board of the
Civil Aeronautics Authority: Thomas
o. Hardin, Texas, Also member o,