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...President Roosevelt, to be the last U. S. President, is God's anointed. Because he is divinely ordained, and also because man's span is 70 years, the President will be allowed to appoint as many Supreme Court Justices as he pleases...
Colonel Robert T. Barton, Richmond, Virginia Democratic Committee Chairman, wrote Lieut.-Governor James H. Price, Democratic nominee for Governor, begging him, if elected, to appoint to his staff "some trenchermen and tanks." Complained Chairman Barton: "I am reliably informed that the Governor of Kentucky's third team can down in these activities any and all opposition in Virginia. The present staff lacks men who can throw good parties...
...Federal Communications Commission, whose weightiest duty is to assign air channels and regulate their use by U. S. broadcasters. Last week President Roosevelt did to the Commission just twice as much as he had just done to the Supreme Court. He took advantage of two vacancies to appoint two new members who will bring it more into line with his own ideas...
While the Senate was busy wondering: 1) whom the President would appoint to the Supreme Court vacancy created last June 2 by the retirement of Justice Willis Van Devanter; and 2) whether he would make his appointment before Congress adjourned, Idaho's gaunt old lion, Senator William E. Borah, last week gave it something new to wonder about. Said he on the Senate floor...
...three Regents whose names were extracted from the envelope one was dead and the Barlman did not share the liking of the late King Fuad for the other two, promptly voted to appoint three entirely different Regents. These grave dignitaries have performed their stewardship well. Last week in the Barlman the powers they have exercised were turned over to Farouk I in a simple ceremony of oath-taking like that by which a President is sworn in at Washington. Swore His Majesty upon the sacred Koran last week, with alert U. S. Minister to Egypt Bert Fish listening...