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President Roosevelt never said just when he would appoint a successor to Justice Willis Van Devanter who retired two months ago. Nonetheless it had been largely taken for granted that he would do so before Congress adjourned. Last week with that adjournment becoming imminent, what had been taken for granted became a matter of speculation. For the President announced he had asked Attorney General Cummings for an opinion on his power to appoint a Justice when Congress was not in session...
...content to guess, Republican Arthur Vandenberg of Michigan introduced a resolution in the Senate declaring it the "sense" of that body. The President should appoint Justices of the Supreme Court only when the Senate could act on the nominations before the nominees began service. Said he: "It is manifest the Senate can't be a free agent to exercise responsibility under the Constitution to confirm Supreme Court nominees if the Senate can't act until after a nominee has put on his robes and served for many months as an integral part of the Court...
...When any party asks for an injunction on the grounds of a law's unconstitutionally, the senior judge of the circuit in which the plea is made shall appoint a court of three judges, at least one of whom is a circuit judge, to hear the case...
...Whenever the docket of any district court becomes overcrowded the senior judge of the circuit shall appoint a judge from another district to help clean up the accumulation of work. Or if there is no other district judge in the circuit who can be spared, the senior' circuit judge shall appeal to the Chief Justice of the U. S. who shall appoint a district judge from another circuit, preferably adjoining that where the need arises, to help out in the district concerned...
Having cogitated SEC's friendly criticism and suggestions, the Council's president, able, chubby J. (for Joshua) Reuben Clark Jr., requested the Secretary of State and SEChairman to appoint a two-man "Board of Visitors" to descend upon the Council ''from time to time with or without notice." For his man. Secretary of State Hull last week designated Herbert Feis, State Department adviser on international economic affairs, and SEChairman James McCauley Landis named the SEChairman-presumably Commissioner William O. Douglas, who is slated to succeed Mr. Landis when that New Dealer retires next September to take...