The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-09-29

At the top of the list, in the opinion of almost every Washing ton observer. was Justice Felix Frankfurter, under whom Tommy the Cork studied at Harvard Law school. It was F'rankfurter who helped Tommy get his first and most prized job as secretary to the late great Justice Oliver Wen- dell Holmes. And 1t was Frank furter who had placed, through Tommy, many young lawyers on the federal payroll-so many, in fact, that they have come to be known as the Frankfurtcr boys or the "HOt-Dog Club"
 Tn turn Tom Corcoran was very instrumental In putting Felix Frankfurter on the Supreme Court. Therefore 1t was natural to suppose that Justice Frank furter now would go to bat for his old pupil to be Solicitor Gen. eral.
 However, Frankfurter did not
 support COrcoran at all. He was
 one of the minority justices who
 dlSsented.
 WHY FRANKFURTER
 DESERVED
 Corcorans friends have this ex- planation of Frankfurter's failure to go to bat for his old student. Last year Frankfurter served on @ special committee appointed by the President to make civil serv- ice recommendation regarding government jobs. One recommen- dation was to exempt various legal jobs from civil service in or- der to make 1t easy for the gov- ernment to hire the type Of law" yers 1t wanted.
 Frankfurter also recommended that these government lawyers were to be approved by the Solici- tor General. This was the job which Tom Corcoran wanted - Solicitor General. Friends further. believe that Frankfurter did not want Corcoran to have this key post where he could select future lawyers for the government. STIMSONS EGG RUN"
 The U. s. Air Corps has started a lot of new special services as a result of the war in Europe - regular, trips across the Atlantic, committing run between New York and Washington, and vari- ous others not known to the gen. eral public.
 But the most mysterious of all these is "the egg rum"
 Nobody outside the Air Corps knows what this is, but here is the inside of the mystery. Almost every weekend, Secretary of War Stimson goes by plane from Washington to spend Saturday and Sunday at his Long Island place, ''HighOld", where he has a farm.
 And after the weekend is over, the Secretary of War comes out to the airport to board his plane looking very dignified and clutch ing a little paper bag full of fresh eggs.
 And great is the trepi6ation of the pilot for fear a jo-t of the plane should spoil the weeks breakfasts which MT. Stimson is carrying back to Washington. TANKS FOR BRITAIN
 Tanks, the biggest need of the British after airplanes. will soon be rolling of the assembly lines at the rate of 1000 per month. Even at the present rate of pro- duction tanks are beginning to pile up in New York.
 Of these, 800 . month will go
 to the British. for tanks are
 what the British need more
 than anything else tO take the
 offensive on the European con-
 tinent.
 But this very favorable picture has one bad drawback. It is the problem of getting the tanks to England or Egypt. The first problem is ships. but even after this is solved. there Is the equally dlftieult problem Of unloading. Tanks are so heavy that the ships crane cannot unload them; it takes . heavy crane on the dock.
 Many cranes In English ports