The election of Bernard S. Deutsch to the New York Supreme Court, as candidate of the Independent Judge’s Party was urged on Thursday evening by Samuel Seabury at a meeting in Town Hall.
Mr. Seabury is honorary chairman of the Independent Judge’s Party, which is seeking the election of Mr. Deutsch and George W. Alger in opposition to Samuel Hofstadter and Aron Steuer, whose nominations were approved by both the Republican and Democratic parties.
The selection of Mr. Deutsch, who is president of the American Jewish Congress, and a former president of the Bronx County Bar Association was urged also in the addresses of Charles C. Burlingham, former President of the Association of the Bar of New York, who is chairman of the campaign committee; Henry W. Taft, a former president of the City Bar Association, and Alfred A. Cook.
Mr. Deutsch’s candidacy has won the support of outstanding personalities re-
gardless of their party affiliation. Support has been pledged to him by Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Columbia University; George Gordon Battle, prominent attorney and communal worker; John W. Wickersham, head of President Hoover’s Commission and former United States Attorney General; John W. Davis, former Democratic candidate for President of the United States; Elihu Root former United States Secretary of State; J. Leroy Rothschild; former Supreme Court Justice Joseph B. Proskauer; Mrs. Charles H. Sabin; Jesse Isidor Straus, and Rabbi Stephen S. Wise among others.
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