CHIEF JUSTICE FRED M. VINSON - TYPED LETTER SIGNED 01/03/1938 - HFSID 26570
Price: $380.00
FRED M. VINSON
Fred M. Vinson sends a typed letter agreeing to present a letter to
the committee on Printing.
Typed Letter Signed: "Fred M. Vinson" as U.S.
Representative from Kentucky, 1p, 8x10½. On letterhead of Congress of the
United States, House of Representative. Washington, D. C., 1938 January 3.
To Honorable D. Lawrence Groner, Chief Justice, United States Court of
Appeals, Washington, D. C. In full: "I have your letter of December
31st with which you enclose letter to be addressed to the Chairman of the House
and Senate Committees on Printing. I think that your proposed letter clearly
expresses the purpose you have in mind and can offer no suggestions improving on
it. I will be more than glad to present it to the Chairman of the above named
committees promptly upon its receipt by me. With kindest of personal regards, I
am truly," Frederick M. Vinson, a former U. S. Representative from
Kentucky (1925-1929, 1931-1937), U.S. Circuit Court Judge (1937-1943) and
Secretary of the Treasury (1945-1946), was appointed Chief Justice by President
Truman in 1946, serving until his death in 1953. During his term, the
Supreme Court rendered important civil liberty decisions. It ruled that the
non-Communist statement required by the Taft-Hartley Act did not violate the
Constitution (1950), that a speaker who displays "a clear and present danger" of
incitement to riot can be arrested (1951) and that segregation is barred in
interstate railway travel (1952). Fold creases not near signature. Lightly
stained at edges. Fine condition.
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