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...emanating the same day from the Senate Judiciary Committee. It voted an adverse report on the bill 10-to-8. It also voted on a compromise proposed by Senator Logan of Kentucky to allow the President to increase the Court temporarily, if Justices over 75 do not retire. Chairman Ashurst and other Administration supporters had taken a strong stand against compromise, but with only one exception (Senator Pittman) they voted for the compromise. Yet it also was defeated, 10-to-8, for only one of the opponents (New Mexico's Hatch) went over to the compromise...
Politics, like the poor, are always with us. But now that the fate of the Supreme Court seems to rest in the hands of Senator Ashurst's tight little judiciary committee, and the noise of battle has died down while the proponents of the abortive plan try to drive some sort of a compromise with the President in order to get the measure through at all, the most significant political news of the week comes not from the legislative halls of Washington, but rather from the back rooms of local Republican clubs in New York City. For the Republicans...
...Senator Ashurst's notion that some Senate hearings have lacked dignity, a quality which he does his best to impart. Best sample he gave last week was when Dorothy Thompson, asked whether the President's proposal would not have been considered fantastic a year ago, responded...
...believe there were some suspicious souls who did suggest the possibility. There were those who did call it fantastic. I believe-I believe Senator Ashurst called it fantastic...
...roar of laughter which followed, Senator Ashurst literally rose to the occasion. Grasping the lapels of his cutaway- in the pockets of which he carries, for souvenir hunters, reprints of the address he made renouncing his opposition to increasing the Supreme Court (TIME, March 1)-he made a deep bow and replied...