Show ROUND MERRY Two Factors Behind Justice Blast By DREW PEARSON W WASHINGTON WASHINGTON Some ASHL S Some 0 m e of those who have sat Inside supreme supreme su su- preme court confidential conferences con con- believe that two factors factors factors fac fac- tors were behind Justice Robert Jacksons Jackson's flare up against his Ws associate Justice Hugo Black They are 1 Jacksons Jackson's own wracking nerve job at berg and his keen keel disappointment disappoint disappoint- ment over not riot being appointed chief justice 2 a conspiracy by certain groups in the United States to nullify nullity the hitting hard-hitting liberal opinions of Justice Black Most people dont don't realize it but Jackson hM has suffered three bitter political disappointments and In one previous case he ho lashed back bi bitterly Herly though privately privately privately-at at a man who helped disappoint him Disappointment No 1 was when Jackson wanted to be governor governor governor gov gov- of at New York It was Roosevelt's idea that this would groom Jackson as the next White House incumbent However However How How- ever F D R couldn't whip the New York politicians into line 20 so it was promised that Jackson Jackson Jack Jack- son would become attorney general general general gen gen- eral instead This was disappointment No 2 For Frank Murphy then defeated defeated de de- as governor of Michigan was appointed attorney general Jackson never got over this and boiled over privately against Frank Murphy Disappointment No 3 came when Chief Justice Hughes re re- re tired Jackson had been under the impression that he had a White House promise to be Hughes' Hughes successor But Harlan Fiske Stone was made chief Justice Felix Frankfurter lurter Feud Since Feud Since then Jackson has labored under the impression that he was next in line after Stone retired and his close friend Justice Frankfurter Frankfurter Frank Frank- furter did his level best to se secure secure secure se- se cure the appointment for him However Secretary of ot the Treasury Vinson was appointed and and at a time when Jackson was carrying an almost Impossible impossible impossible sible burden at the war trials Things have not been going well at What was expected to be a grand show ha has turned into a fiasco So news of f the Vinson appointment appointment appointment appoint appoint- ment apparently was too much p In addition friends of both Jackson and Black suggest that some needling of the usually gen gen- mannered tle-mannered Jackson must have been done from Washington For a long time Frankfurter has been the quiet spearhead of the Black anti-Black faction on the supreme court Actually rela Lions between Jackson and Black have appeared outwardly cordial during confidential court ses es- es Every noon the court adjourns to its private dining room for lunch lunch and every Saturday the justices gather for a long private Pr- Pr vate session to iron out their opinions At these private sessions ses ses- lions gions there have been differences of opinion between Black and Jackson Jackon but except for one brief up flare over the portal to p portal coal ca case e they have not appeared to be personally in each others other's hair Not so Justice Frankfurter It tt is an open court secret that he is at personal odds with both Black and Justice Frank Murphy Murphy Murphy Mur Mur- phy while relations arc are none too happy between him and Justice Justice Jus Jus- tice William O. O Douglas Judicial Law Partners Partners Partners-A A justice justice jus jus- tice of the supreme court commenting commenting com corn privately on the Bl Black Black- ck- ck Jackson feud pointed out that the late Chief Justice Stone did not disqualify himself when members of ot his old law firm Sullivan and Cromwell appeared before the court unless court unless the case Involved a client he had han han- dIed when a member of ot the firm Likewise Justice Douglas formerly formerly formerly for for- merly was a member of the firm of ot Cravath Degersdorff Swaine k Wood but has not disqualified himself when members of this firm appeared before him him un un less les he had had a previous in interest interest in- in terest in the case It n wa was also pointed out that supreme court justices who have been members of large New York law firms might find themselves themselves themselves them them- selves disqualified in a great many cases I in this thia rule were followed Another court observer recalled that Justice JUlUce Jackson had never disqualified himself when Solicitor Solid Solid- tor General Charles Fahey appeared ap appeared ap- ap before him Yet Fahey served under Jackson when Jackson was attorney generala general general- a a. relationship perhaps c closer oscr than that of ot law Jaw partners |