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...Following the example of Senator Ashurst who recanted his opposition to increasing the membership of the Supreme Court (see p. 10), the President's eldest son James, now a member of the White House secretariat, traveled to Gardner, Mass. There with voice and delivery startlingly like that of his father (including pronunciation of the "t" in "often"), he publicly urged that Massachusetts ratify the Child Labor Amendment, reversing his stand of two years...
...committee of Congress had yet begun hearings on it, the great debate on President Roosevelt's proposals to reform the Judiciary and, incidentally, to alter the Supreme Court, last week burst prematurely open in full Senate. First Tennessee's windy McKellar, then Arizona's courtly Ashurst, with interpolations by thunderous Majority Leader Robinson, shook the air with preliminary salvos. Reason: even before the historic Supreme Court Battle of 1937 began, the Administration was losing ground...
...hunting senior Associate Justice, Willis Van. Devanter, at her left. All the other members of the Court except liberal Louis Dembitz Brandeis, who, at 80, goes to no evening functions, and liberal Harlan F. Stone, recuperating from a recent illness, were ranged along the board according to precedence. Senator Ashurst and Representative Summers, heads of the Senate and House Judiciary Committees, who before the week was out were to be handed a bill to dilute the power of the honored guests, were also at the table. Likewise Senator Borah, who had just stood up for the Court, Attorney General Cummings...
...startling amount of lukewarmness quickly developed. Senator Norris who, in the contest between New Deal and Supreme Court, has always been on the New Deal's side, frankly declared, "I doubt the wisdom of the remedy suggested." Senator Ashurst. chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, hemmed & hawed and looked up the late Chief Justice Taft's views before saying he would sponsor the bill in the Senate. Chairman Hatton Summers of the House Judiciary Committee declared merely, ''We'll take their baby out and look...
...McNary, Republican leader of the Senate, "A strong document that will provoke some controversy." Said Representative Snell, Republican leader of the House: "A very strong and outspoken speech which should command the attention of the country." Equally vapid were the comments of most other Republicans, of most Democrats. Senator Ashurst, one of those caught offside on the constitutional amendment question, vaguely described the message as "apples of gold in pictures of silver...