Nomination of Herbert W. Christenberry: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Seventy-seventh Congress, Second Session, on the Nomination of Herbert W. Christenberry to be United States District Attorney, Eastern District of Louisiana. January 10 and 12, 1942United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Nominations U.S. Government Printing Office, 1942 - 147 páginas |
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Página 40 - It must be conceded", says the court, "that if the court had jurisdiction and, consequently, the power and authority to determine or inquire into the bona fides of aspirants for office in political primaries, the defendants were properly disqualified. To countenance the practice here resorted to would lend judicial sanction to the destruction of the objects and purposes of the primary law, the most important of which was to insure fairness in primary elections.
Página 36 - ... you, sir. The CHAIRMAN. I think, Mr. Kittner, In response to that, the Commission would regard that as being the next step. I don't think we feel we have gotten to that particular point in our thinking here, but we will bear that very much In mind. All right, we will take a recess for about 15 minutes. (At this point a brief recess was taken, after which the hearing was resumed.) The CHAIRMAN. Gentlemen, the Commission would like to thank each of you, both from private industry and from Government,...
Página 20 - Thorin, you come around and have a seat at the witness table, please. (At this point a short recess was taken after which the hearing was continued.) Senator STENNIS.
Página 124 - I would draw in a lottery to go out and kill Long. It would only take one man, one gun, and one bullet." Another had said, "I haven't the slightest doubt but that Roosevelt would pardon anyone who killed Long.
Página 38 - Legislature, called attention publicly to the fact that as a result of the decision rendered by the Supreme Court of Louisiana in the case of State r.
Página 20 - ... August 9 he had read to an inattentive and skeptical Senate what he asserted was a transcript, recorded by dictaphone, of a meeting held by his political opponents on July 21 in Room 506 of the De Soto Hotel in New Orleans. According to Long, one voice, regrettably unidentified, had said, "I would draw in a lottery to go out and kill Long. It would only take one man, one gun, and one bullet.
Página 1 - ... the committee feels that its duty requires that it candidly and frankly reveal to the Senate the deplorable and distressing political conditions existing in the State of Louisiana.
Página 1 - ... be attacked upon facts but there are always politicians who find some way to avoid the application of that remedy. I would say that, from reading the statutes and the decisions upon that question, it would seem to be absolutely futile in beating the dummy candidate device. The committee continues: The committee condemns the dummy candidate device and the method by which it is applied in Louisiana as a vicious and abhorrent political device. It ought not to be countenanced in any free government.
Página 1 - ... States went into the question of a primary, it may be that the Senate of the United States would not want to go further than to say whether the Senator, who is here and who is presenting his certificate himself became tarred and tainted with the fraud in that primary. The committee goes on to say: The committee finds that the use of dummy candidates is a fraud upon the rights of a citizen of any State where such practices prevail.
Página 73 - Gunn was and would continue to be to his country, appointed him to the office of United States District Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, but for reasons satisfactory to Julien this appointment was declined.