Short End

In an unscheduled two-hour heart to heart talk President Roosevelt last week persuaded Assistant Attorney General Robert Jackson to take the job of Solicitor General, vacated by Stanley Reed's appointment to the Supreme Court. Bob Jackson accepted on the understanding he would be allowed to name his own successor as chief trustbuster to the Department of Justice. But he accepted against the advice of his good & liberal friend, Brain-truster Thomas ("The Cork") Corcoran. For Attorney General Cummings and other Administration Right-wingers the Jackson appointment was a notable victory. Mr. Cummings has never seen eye to eye with his able young subordinate on the subject of trust busting. Indeed, Bob Jackson once threatened to resign but the Attorney General told him not to bother since he would probably resign himself to return to private practice. In his new capacity Bob Jackson will be so busy defending the Government that he will have little time to attack monopolies and less to build himself up as a Democratic candidate for Governor of New York State. Consensus was that Bob Jackson got the short end of the stick.

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