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make things any better. He thus felt Madden must go.

I put up a big fight, as did Francis Biddle, who by this time was somebody, and Senator Wagner, not to have Madden just kicked out, but to have Madden be allowed to resign in a dignified way and to be appointed to something else equally good. There was a good deal of argument. I held up the whole thing, delaying it week after week in one way or another until the President would agree and until we found the spot. Fortunately there came a vacancy, after some time, in the Court of Claims. Madden was very unhappy about this. He felt terribly about it, because he is a man of honor and good will, had given up his academic career to take this post. The Court of Claims, of course, is not interesting work for a lawyer. If he'd been appointed a district judge, a federal judge, that would have been different, but there were no vacancies and I'm not sure the President would have appointed him a district judge.

Anyhow, there came this vacancy in the Court of Claims. The salary was the same. The post was all right. It's a good, dignified job. It's an appropriate job. He would be called “judge”. With a good deal of mental anguish Madden proceeded to separate





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