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...last week when President Roosevelt let it be known that his Black-Connery wages & hours bill, the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1937, which has been publicly mulled by the Senate and House Labor Committees the past fortnight, was to pass substantially as written. Sidetracked thus was Senator Borah's proposed amendment to bar monopoly-made goods from interstate commerce. But as C. I. O.'s John L. Lewis and A. F. of L.'s William Green agreed with each other and with Capital that the wages & hours fixing powers of the Act were too great, Administration...
...executing the Court's second tactical maneuver Justice Van Devanter was credited last week with an assist from Senators Borah and Wheeler. For a long time Senator Borah and the Justice have been neighbors. Forty-six years ago when young Lawyer Borah went to Idaho, young Lawyer Van Devanter, just across the border in Wyoming, had already retired as chief justice of the State supreme court and was about to become chairman of the Republican State Committee. Today, Borah occupies apartment 77 at No. 2101 Connecticut Avenue and Oldster Van Devanter occupies apartment 47, three floors below. When they...
...been preparing to retire, had provided himself with a 778-acre farm in Maryland for that purpose, but lately opponents of the President's Court Plan had urged him not to quit. According to the account generally accepted in Washington last week, he finally appealed to Senator Borah for approval. Senator Borah consulted Senator Wheeler, and they urged him to do as he wished. Mr. Van Devanter hoped that Justice Brandeis, who is 80 and belongs to the opposite, liberal wing of the Court, would retire at the same time, but Mr. Brandeis was adamant. He would not retire...
...supposed to have assured him several times over that he could have the first vacancy on the Court. Senators, not only Democrats but Republicans, were practically unanimous in urging his appointment. Senators Byrnes and Harrison went to the White House to put in a good word for him. Senator Borah wrote the President a letter on his behalf. The U. S. Senate, "Greatest Club in the World." seemed unanimously to feel that for long loyalty to the New Deal, its Member Joe Robinson should be rewarded...
...these cattle are friends of the Senator from Oklahoma," gravely assented Senator Borah, "then I'm satisfied...