Brief Sketches I New Appointees

9 0 New York Herald Tribune held the position of chief assistant ===----=--------~--~ United States Attorney in Detroit, Democratic nominee next fall for resigning to become a judge of Re- the Senate. corder's Court, in Detroit. He was Mr. Cromwell preaches the eco Brief Sketches I elected Mayor of Detroit on a Pro- nomic doctrine that all income taxes gressive platform in 1930 and re- should ultimately be wiped out and si_gned in 1933 to go to the Philip- th9:t a gener~l sales tax should ~e Of Roosevelt's pmes. He conducted his successful levied on fi~ished products. He is gubernatorial campaign in 1936 co-author, with Hugo E. Czerwonky, while on leave of absence from nis of "_In ~efense of ~apitalism." "True New Appointees post in Manila. capitalism," he believes, "is not dead, A Roman catholic, Mr. Murphy because it has n~ver lived.'' succeeds the late Pierce Butler as Mr. Cromwell is _the step-son of Murphy Called a Protege; the only representative of his faith E_. T. Stotesbury, Philadelphia finan to Politics; on the highest bench. He has never c1er. He attende~ the Wharton Jackson New married. Mr. Murphy abstains from School of Economics . at the U~i Biddle Was U. S. Judge smoking and drinking, and leads an versity of Pennsylvania and w1?-1le active athletic life. an undergraduate was a champion ' --- amateur boxer. Brief sketches of President Roose velt's major appointees yesterday Robert H. Jackson -- Attorney General John Cudahy follow: Robert Houghwout Jackson, un- Ambasador to Belgium Frank Murphy like many of the leading members Mr. Cudahy began his diplomatic Associate Justice of Supreme Court of the New Deal, has a background career as Ambassador to Poland in Frank Murphy, President Roose of affiliation with business and cap- 1933. After four years in that postj velt's fifth appointee to the Supreme ital. His nomination as Attorney he was appointed Minister to the Court, has been in politics since 1920, General by President Roosevelt Irish Free State on May 27, 1937. when he became chief assistant climaxes a political career that Mr. Cudahy was born in Milwau United States Attorney for the East began only five years ago with his kee on Dec. 10, 1887, and was grad ern District of Michigan. The Presi appointment as general counsel of uated from Harvard University in dent has personally sponsored Mr. the Bureau of Internal Revenue. 1910. He o'>tained his law degree Murphy's political activities since he Two years later he was appointed from the p-niversity of Wisconsin supported the New Deal ticket in and began the practice of law in of 1932. Assistant Attorney General. and in the national campaign 1938 he became Solicitor General, 1913. After ser1:in~ in the World President Roosevelt appointed Mr. as a captain m the Army he General of the the post which he now leaves. War Murphy Governor As Solicitor General, Mr. Jackson was a rancher 1~ M~xico from 1920 Philippine Islands in May, 1933, and and until his appointment made him Attorney General of the prepared the opinion on which Presi- to 1923 dent Roosevelt based his dismissal of as Ambassador to Poland he was in United States on Jan. 1, 1939, after mar Mr. Murphy had been defeated for Dr. Arthur E. Morgan as chairman tl:1,e real estate business. He is re-election as Governor of Michigan. of the Tennessee valley Authority. _r1ed and has two children. Succeeding Homer S. Cummings In May, 1938, Mr. Jackson, wi~h Breckinridge Long as Attorney General, Mr. Murphy Henry A. Wallace, Secretary of Agri.. encouraged the prosecution of busi culture, sustained a major defeat Assistant Secretary of State ness and labor for violations of the when the Supreme Court by a vote Mr. Long returns to a post he anti-trust laws. He sponsored the of 6-to-1, refused to review the Kan- OC?Upied under President Woodrow investigation of official and judicial sas City stockyard case. Wils(:>n from 1917 until 1920. His corruption, a campaign which led to Before his entrance into politics, ~ppomtment as Ambassador ~~ I_taly the removal of Martin T. Manton Mr. Jackson had been an executive m 1933 was approved by politicians from the bench of the Circuit Court and counsel for traction, utility and and diplomats alike,. because Mr. of Appeals in New York. banking jnterests in Jamestown, N. Long, while a deserving Democrat, Mr. Murphy, a native of Harbor Y. A native of Spring creek, Pa., ~as also an auth_ority on interna Beach, Mich., was born on April 13, where he was born on Feb 13 1892 t10na1 law. He resigned this post in 1893. He received an LL.B. from Mr. Jackson was graduated' fron{ 1936 beca_use of ill_ health. the University of Michigan in 1916. Albany Law School and was admitted R~turnmg to his prac~ice in St. He studied in London and Dublin to the bar in 1913. He is married Louis, Mr. Long engage~ ma rough for one year before enlisting in the and has two children. At Jamestown and tumble contest with ~enator United States Army in 1917. He he maintains a large, model farm James Reed for the latter s seat, rose to the rank of captain during and is interested in the breeding and but was ~efeate~. Eventually, he training of horses. dropped_ mto v_irtual reti~ement the war and served with the Army ___ from his profession, preferrmg to , of Occupation in Germany. devote most of his time to his col- 1920 until 1923 Mr. ¥urohvl Francis Biddle From Solicitor General lection of antiques and paintings Francis Biddle, selected by Presi- and his est.ate at Laurel Hill, Md. dent Roosevelt to succeed. Robert He is especi:3-lly fond of horses and H. Jackson as Solicitor General, is, of f?x huntmg. like the President himself a mem- With the outbreak of the Euro ber of an old and aristocr~tic fam- pe9:n war, he was named special Uy. Before his appointment he had assistant to Seciretary of s_tate Cor served. as a judge of the court of dell Hull and was placed in charge Appeals for the 3d District, in Phil- of the special division of the State adelphia, since Feb. 9, 1939. Department created to handle war Judge Biddle had filled two im- emergency work.--- portan_t governmental positions be- George S Messersmith fore his elevation to the bench. On • Nov. 16, 1934, he was named chair- Ambassador to Cuba. man of the National Labor Rela- Mr. Messersmith has served in tions Board by President Roosevelt, the State Department• for a quar serving until July, 1935. From June ter-century. He is credited by offi- 8, 1938, until his appointment to cials with the "streamlining" of the the court, he was counsel for the department, which has enabled it joint Congressional Committee in- to meet the considerable problems vestigating the Tennessee Valley raised by the pre-war crises and by Authority. the war itself. Born in Paris on May 9, 1886, He was born at Fleetwood, Pa., Judge Biddle was brought to the on Oct. 3, 1883, and was graduated United States as a child. After from the Keystone State Normal preparing at Groton School he was School and Delaware College. For graduated from Harvard in 1909. many years Mr. Messersmith was Two years later he received his an educator and lecturer, and he LL.B., cum laude, from Harvard served for two years as vice-presi and in 1911-'12 was private secre- dent of the Delaware state Board tary to Associate Justice Oliver of Education. From 1900 to 1914, Wendell Holmes of the Supreme ?e was Superintendent of Schools Court. m various Delaware municipalities. After ten years of private practice Mr.. Messersmith entered the dip ln Philadelphia, Judge Biddle be- l?matic servi~e in 1914, his first as came special Assistant United states signment bemg a consular one at Attorney for the Eastern District of Fort Erie, Canada, from 1914 to Pennsylvania in 1922, a duty he dis- 1916. Subsequently he held con charged for four years. He was ac- sul3:r positions in the Dutch West tive in Philadelphia and Pennsyl- I~dies, Antwerp, Luxemborg, Buenos vania politics before his appoint- Aires and Berlin, where he was ment to the N. L. R. B. in 1934. Consul General from 1930 to 1934. He was appointed Minister to Uru- James H. R. Cromwell guay in 1934 and later in the same Minister to Canada year he was appointed Minister to James Henry Robert Cromwell Austria. He became Assistant Sec who is forty-three years old, is a~ retary of State on July 26, 1937. author, world traveler, philanthro- R H N pist, sportsman, advertising man • enry orweb and economist. He married Doris Ambassador to Peru Duke ~ 1935; from 1920 to 1930 he Mr. Norweb, a "career diplomat," was the husband of Delphine Dodge began his diplomatic service in 1916 automobile heiress. ' the year he was graduated cun{ He and Mrs. Cromwell have long laude from Harvard University, as been ard~n~ supporters of the Roose- secretary to the late William G. velt administration. Mrs. Cromwell Sharp, Ambassador to France. He g~ve $50,000 t<? the Democratic na- beca:me a secretary in the foreign tlon~l campaign of 1936, when service the following year and sub President Roosevelt was re-elected, sequently he was assigned to Tokio and made smaller contributions to The Hague, Santiago and Mexic~ the Democratic party in New Jersey. City. Mr. Norweb was Minister to The C~omwells have an estate at Bolivia in 1936-'37 and since 1937 Somerville, N.

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