Hearst had spent more than $60,000 of his own money in the probe, but still Attorney General Knox was quiescent.

`` The Attorney General has been brooding over that evidence like an old hen on a doorknob for eighteen months '', Hearst said.

What I want is to have this evidence come before Congress and if the Attorney General does not report it, as I am very sure he won't, as he has refused to do anything of the kind, I then wish that a committee of seven Representatives be appointed with power to take the evidence.

-- Your July 26 editorial regarding the position of Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy on prospective tax relief for DuPont stockholders is based on an erroneous statement of fact.

As a result, your criticism of Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy and the Department of Justice was inaccurate, unwarranted and unfair.

The Attorney General responded by letter dated July 19.

Yet your editorial said: `` Now the Attorney General writes that no considerations ' justify any loss of revenue of this proportion ' ''.

The Attorney General shall assign such officers and employees of the Department of Justice as may be necessary to represent the United States as to any claims of the Government of the United States with respect to which the Commission has jurisdiction under this title.

On the brief were Solicitor General Rankin, Assistant Attorney General Wilkey, Beatrice Rosenberg and J. F. Bishop.

In his report to the Attorney General, the hearing officer suggested that the petitioner be exempt only from combatant training and service.

Moreover, the hearing officer's report is but intradepartmental, is directed to the Attorney General and, of course, is not the recommendation of the Department.

It is not essentially different from a memorandum of an attorney in the Department of Justice, of which the Attorney General receives many, and to which he may give his approval or rejection.

As I have stated previously, the Attorney General has advised me that this section violates fundamental constitutional principles.

However, the Attorney General of California, at the request of the Secretary of Labor, sought to have the jurisdiction over the issue removed to the Federal District Court, on grounds that it was predominantly a Federal issue since the validity of the Secretary's Regulation was being challenged.

The Attorney General of California concurs in this interpretation and has filed an appeal from these decisions to the District Court of Appeal.

The Attorney General of the United States, in considering the power of the Secretary to issue similar regulations under the Wagner-Peyser Act relating to the interstate recruitment of farm workers, has rendered an opinion sustaining his authority.

Should Congress authorize the Attorney General to file suit to accomplish admission of a child to a school to which he is denied entrance??

Even though in civil rights legislation in 1957 and 1960 the provision for the Attorney General to act was eliminated, should we nevertheless support such a clause??

Interruptions came largely from the bench, which numerous times rebuked the Attorney General for letting his witnesses run on, though it, too, made no serious effort to choke off the flow.

The achievement of the desegregation of certain lunch counters not only by wise action by local community leaders but by voluntary action following consultation between Attorney General Rogers and the heads of certain national chain stores should, of course, be applauded.

The President has also called upon the Attorney General, the Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, and the Secretary of Labor to coordinate their efforts `` in the development of a program of federal leadership to assist states and local communities in their efforts to cope with the problem.

Simultaneously the President announced Thursday the appointment of David L. Hackett, a special assistant to the Attorney General, as executive director of the new Committee on Juvenile Delinquency and Youth Crime.

Mr. Simpkins will move into the post being vacated by Thomas B. Finan, earlier named Attorney General to succeed C. Ferdinand Sybert, who will be elevated to an associate judgeship on the Maryland Court of Appeals.

* March 5 – A. Mitchell Palmer becomes Attorney General of the United States through recess appointment.

The raids and arrests occurred in November 1919 and January 1920 under the leadership of Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer.

In June 1919, Attorney General Palmer told the House Appropriations Committee that all evidence promised that radicals would " on a certain day … rise up and destroy the government at one fell swoop.

As Attorney General Palmer struggled with exhaustion and devoted all his energies to the coal strike, Hoover organized the next raids.

" Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels, who made notes of the conversation, thought the Attorney General had merited the President's " admonition ," because Palmer " was seeing red behind every bush and every demand for an increase in wages.

The drive against Post began to lose energy when Attorney General Palmer ’ s forecast of an attempted radical uprising on May Day 1920 failed to occur.

In March 1919, President Wilson asked Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer for his opinion on clemency for Debs but offered his own: " I doubt the wisdom and public effect of such an action.

In April 1919, authorities discovered a plot for mailing 36 bombs to prominent members of the U. S. political and economic establishment: J. P. Morgan, John D. Rockefeller, Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, U. S. Attorney General Alexander Mitchell Palmer, and immigration officials.

One target was the Washington, D. C., house of U. S. Attorney General Palmer, where the explosion killed the bomber, who evidence indicated was an Italian-American radical from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Among the reasons why he did not become the candidate were rivals for the nomination, his obvious political inexperience, and the strong support he gave for the anti-Communist strategy of Democratic Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer to defeat radical subversion.

The house of Attorney General Palmer after being bombed by anarchists in 1919

During the Red Scare of 1918 – 19, in response to the 1919 anarchist bombings aimed at prominent government officials and businessman, U. S. Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer, supported by J. Edgar Hoover, then head of the Justice Department's Enemy Aliens Registration Section, used the Sedition Act, a 1918 amendment to the Espionage Act, to deport several hundred foreign citizens, including Emma Goldman, to the Soviet Union on a ship the press called the " Soviet Ark ".

The bomb intended for Attorney General Palmer exploded in Valdonoci's hands.

Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer conducted the Palmer Raids, a series of raids and arrests of non-citizen socialists, anarchists, radical unionists, and immigrants.

Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer invoked the Lever Act, a wartime measure that made it a crime to interfere with the production or transportation of necessities.

The U. S. Department of Justice's General Intelligence Division, headed by J. Edgar Hoover and under the direction of Attorney General Alexander Mitchell Palmer, initiated a series of raids to arrest leftists.

In 1919, after a series of unattributed bombings and attempted assassinations of government officials, and judges ( later traced to militant Galleanist adherents of radical anarchist Luigi Galleani ), the US Department of Justice headed by Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer, acting under the Sedition Act of 1918, began arresting thousands of foreign-born party members, many of whom the government deported.

Alexander Mitchell Palmer ( May 4, 1872 – May 11, 1936 ), best known as A. Mitchell Palmer, was Attorney General of the United States from 1919 to 1921.

Following the election of 1912, Palmer hoped to join Wilson's Cabinet as Attorney General.

President Woodrow Wilson with the " young, militant, progressive and fearless " Attorney General, Mitchell Palmer.

Palmer served as Attorney General from March 5, 1919, until March 4, 1921.

" Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels, who made notes of the conversation, thought the Attorney General had merited the President's " admonition ," because Palmer " was seeing red behind every bush and every demand for an increase in wages.