Chief Askew's Diary: May 7, 1930

He gives a weather report; labor and NAACP sink Supreme Court nominee

The entirety of Chief Askew’s diary entry today was about the weather, specifically about rain. In the morning he wrote that it looked like it might rain before night. In the afternoon he wrote there was a “pretty good rain around in places” at about 5:30, but “only had a very light shower here not enough to settle the dust.” I’m sure his home garden needed watering.

In Washington, the U.S. Senate narrowly rejected President Hoover’s nominee for U.S. Supreme Court after labor interests and the NAACP mounted a grass roots campaign against him. Paid subscribers can read on about what sunk John J. Parker.

This portrait of Judge John J. Parker is from the collection of the Library of Congress, accessed via Wikipedia.