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PERTH, THURSDAY,
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11.
1940.
SIXTY-SEVENTH YEAR.
Roosevelt Nominates Frank Murphy as Supreme Court Judge
and also on the powerful stagehands' union for labour racketeer
One Noted Catholic Succeeds Another
Last week President Roosevelt nominated Mr. Frank Murphy, United States Attorney General, who has long been regarded as the President's right-hand man, as a Judge of the Supreme Court. The vacancy on the Bench was due to the death of Justice Pierce Butler.
Mr. Murphy is as well known for his Catholicity and his outstanding personal integrity as he is for Is prominence in National affairs. He once said, when it was suggested that he was a likely candidate for the Presidency, that he considered his Catholicity an insuperable obstacle. (No Catholic has ever been President ot the United States.)
Ii I had to give up the Catholic Church for the most exalted position on earth," said Mr. Murphy, "I would gladly give up the I don't glory and the power. think I'd have anv rouble makI love my ing the decision.
It is for this reason perhaps tha he has dared. where so manv who have had the same opportunities have beer criminally lax. to expose racket nl graft in political life. He ha done evervthing in his power to clean up public af fairs, and manv are the political bosses. whether f his own art
DURING THE WAR. During the war Mr. Murphy was a captain in the United States Infantrv. He was with the Arm
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or the opposition, whom he has ndicted tor dishonest practices One eminent judge and several highly placed lawyers have als fallen before his zeal for honest in public affairs. The American magazine, Time,' reported a few months ago that Mr Murphy was about to concentrate on some of mag Holly wood's richest film nates for income tax evasion an ration c the antr-trut laws.
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·· Time' comments: "In these cases and others pending, the soul of Frank Murphy may be tested to the uttermost, tor the political explosive in them is nitro-glycerin, not common black powder as in his previous cases. Yet none of his friends suspects for a second that the soul of Frank Murphy will fail the test." Frank Murphy's light has so shone before men that his integity an piety are known and . America. spected throughout Though he has lived so long in that blaze of limelight, which reveals so clearly the blemishes in the characters of public men, there has never been the slightest breath of scandal attaching to his name. Yet his virtues, articulate as they are, have never been the kind of mere righteousness that repels people. and Mr. Murphy has won and retains the admiration and friendship of many men of a more worldly way of life
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A notable circumstance of Mr. Murphy's career is that, unlike so many other politicians, he has amassed no private fortune and has no financial interests apart from those normally attaching to his work.
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Occupation in Germany and was one of the officers selected to remain in London to study. He took up his legal studies at Lincoln's Inn. London, but after a short time transferred to Trinity College. Dublin. liter returning to America he va attached as chief assistant to the District Attornev in Detroit. His chief accomplishment there was to convict a band of war profiteers. 6'
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