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...noon precisely the Justices filed into their courtroom filled with tense notables. Unable to get seats, Senators Harrison and Barkley stood with William Green of the A. F. of L. in the centre doorway, listening. At 12:01, as on any other decision day, Chief Justice Hughes began reading the majority opinions. But his voice was far louder than usual, far more dramatic. Lest his audience be held too long on tenterhooks, he summarized the decisions first: Congress' right to abrogate the gold clause in private contracts was upheld; citizens were denied the privilege of suing the Government...
HARVARD DARTMOUTH McGowan, l.f. r.f., Rockwell Shirk, r.f. l.f., Mallory Lowman, c. c., Barkley Dampeer, r.g. l.g., Thomas Snell, l.g. r.g., Walkley...
Married. Laura Louise Barkley, 22, daughter of Kentucky's Senator Alben William Barkley; and Douglas MacArthur, 25, nephew of General Douglas MacArthur, U. S. Army Chief of Staff; in Washington...
...Senator Barkley: I have not practiced law since I have been a Member of the Congress for nearly 21 years. I abandoned my practice and turned over to others all the cases I had when I came to Washington, and I have not taken a fee from anyone from that day until this. ... I thought it inappropriate for me to be attempting to run back and forth between Washington and my home in Kentucky, and neglect my official duties here while undertaking to practice law on the outside...
...voting for this measure with all my fingers and toes crossed," said Senator Barkley of Kentucky. ''I am voting for it," said Senator Stephens of Mississippi, ''with strong misgivings, with grave doubts." "I am voting against it,'' said Senator Gore of Oklahoma, ''because the farmers are winding a boa constrictor around their necks. . . . If this measure is constitutional anything is constitutional...