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...Kaaay." Senator Ashurst, the soul of oldtime gallantry, would hardly be so rude as to argue against a lady, but it so happened that the arguments he rose to refute were last week most strikingly expressed by a woman. Columnist Dorothy Thompson (whose husband, Sinclair Lewis, wrote It Can't Happen Here) wrote...
...Marvel." When Senator Ashurst rose last week in the Senate, he was interrupted by Senator Bailey of North Carolina who asked whether Mr. Ashurst did not say after the Supreme Court's NIRA decision that among the "unjust criticisms" leveled at the President was the charge that he intended to enlarge the Court. Senator Ashurst at that time said: "A more ridiculous, absurd and unjust criticism of a President was never made. No person whose opinion is respected has favored attempting such a reckless theory and policy...
Unabashed, Mr. Ashurst now replied: "It is obvious from the record that that is my utterance. The rhetoric alone carries its proof. . . . The man who attempts to be consistent in his public service may end up consistent indeed, but never accomplish anything else...
...spite of his inconsistency and in spite of his ponderous eloquence, Senator Ashurst succeeded in driving home one point which many opponents of the President's proposal ignored. Said he: "That bill is the mildest of all the bills that could have been introduced on the subject and I marvel, in the present circumstances, at the moderation of the President. . . . His proposal does not tinker with the Constitution. . . . There is nothing in the bill that in any way restricts the Supreme Court acting as it has in the past...
...liberals of the U. S. to back him up. For liberals have for two years been complaining that the Supreme Court or the Constitution had to be altered to carry out their social and economic plans, and finally the President was offering to show them how. But Senator Ashurst's demonstration of the "mildness" of the President's plan proved almost too much for liberals to stomach. He had practically proved that the President's bill would not effect any permanent judicial change. Its only long-range effects would be to increase the number of justices...