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...that phrase the charge is made that I would appoint and the Senate would confirm justices worthy to sit beside present members of the Court who understand those modern conditions-that I will appoint justices who will not undertake to override the judgment of the Congress on legislative policy . . . then I say that I and with me the vast majority of the American people favor doing just that thing-now." Strange Bedfellows. Boldly the President amended his Victory Dinner charge that his opponents now and last summer were one & the same, conceded that some liberals honestly differed with him about...
...Thomas H. Bilodeau '37, member of the Winthrop House Committee. Working with him were Neil G. Melone '37 and Chester W. MacArthur '37, chairmen of the Eliot and Winthrop House Committees, and Morris Earle '38. The committee, in rejecting revision proposals, chief of which was the plan to automatically appoint House chairman to the Student Council, acted with the conferment of the 1937 inter-House council...
...follows: "The undersigned, members of the faculty of the Harvard Law School, though varying in their political opinions and their views as to the desirability of some of the policies of the present administration, are agreed that a provision, under the plan proposed, empowering the President to appoint justices to the Supreme Court of the United States in addition to the number now authorized by law, is undesirable...
Franklin Roosevelt, glancing over his morning newspapers one day last week, suddenly frowned in displeasure. He had come upon a report saying that he was planning to stump the country on behalf of his plan to appoint six new members to the Supreme Court. A few minutes later Secretary Steve Early was out handing a bulletin to the press. It denounced the report as "false" and "hostile": the President had no intention of making such a stumping tour...
...quota of 100,000,000 yd. for 1938 with the option of transferring not more than one-fourth the 1938 quota to 1937. Having thus triumphantly established quantity limitations as the basis for Japanese-American trade in cotton textiles, the U. S. mission, before sailing for home, agreed to appoint members to a joint standing committee before April 1 to set similar quotas in manufactured goods such as tablecloths, bedspreads, handkerchiefs...