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Samuel Orman Clark Jr. for James Ward Morris in the Tax Division. Bright brother of former Dean Charles Edward Clark of the Yale Law School, now a U. S. Circuit judge, Sam Clark, too, served first with SEC. His presence at Justice makes Treasury lawyers (of whom Tom Corcoran's young friend Edward Foley is now chief) feel more like working with the Attorney General's Office, which they hitherto avoided.
Francis Michael Shea for Samuel Estill Whitaker in the Claims Division. Out of Dartmouth and Harvard Law School (1928), Mr. Shea worked on AAA, SEC and Puerto Rican Reconstruction before becoming, in 1936, Buffalo Law School's prodigy dean. His special study is bankruptcies & receiverships, at which lawyers rate him far above his predecessor, the mayor of Riverview, Tenn.
Norman Mather Littell for Carl McFarland in the Lands Division. A Rhodes Scholar at Oxford (1921-24) from Indiana, Mr. Littell settled in Seattle, where he worked briefly for NRA but made his record in private practice in the Northwest. Interior Department lawyers used to have orders not to consult the Department of Justice. Now they do and the Lands Division is where they do much of their consulting.
Edward Gearing Kemp for Joseph Keenan as special assistant to the Attorney General. Mr. Kemp, 52, and like Mr. Murphy a bachelor, is from St. Clair, Mich. He was with Mr. Murphy in the Philippines.
Another, younger Murphy assistant, the watch dog of his outer office, is Mennen Williams, 25, a shaving soap grandson.
Outside his immediate official family, Frank Murphy has had Franklin Roosevelt's help in strengthening U. S. district and circuit courts, so that he can count on at least one high-calibre judge in each jurisdiction. In Manhattan, he counts on Circuit Judge Robert Porter Patterson, a Republican. In Philadelphia, it is Circuit Judge Francis Biddle, a New Dealer. New tone has been sought for the bench by picking eminent law teachers. Example: Herschel Arant, dean of Ohio State University's Law School, now a judge of the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals.
The same revamping process has been applied to district attorneys. In Manhattan, lethargic Lamar Hardy was replaced by John Thomas Cahill, 36, another Corcoran familiar. Prosecutor Cahill is already famed for standing up to impressive John William Davis, the Democrats' 1924 nominee for President, in the Levy & Hahn proceedings. In Chicago, U. S. Attorney Mike Igoe had to be elevated to the district bench to make way for sharpshooting, young (36) William J. Campbell. Like
Jack Cahill, Bill Campbell took on a dean of the bar in Weymouth Kirkland and forced him to obey a subpoena for key evidence in the Annenberg case, which Lawyer Kirkland unsuccessfully tried to ignore on the ground of sanctity in the relation between lawyer & client. In Bill Campbell's hands will be the red-hot Skidmore case. Cardinal Mundelein and labor-loving Bishop Sheil are among his most active admirers.
In Homer Cummings' day, the law's delay was accentuated by court dockets loaded down with arrears. From a high of 45,000 pending civil and criminal cases in 1933, he got them reduced to some 22,000 in 1938, but there was still good cause for incoming Frank Murphy to demand faster action from the courts and his D. A.'s.