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...ammunition in an election year. And while the President studied his shots, more Federal Court vacancies came to hand, in the Third Circuit Court at Philadelphia. A rugged rock in the path of the New Deal steam roller was this Third Circuit Court. Four of its aged justices-Joseph Buffmgton, J. Whitaker Thompson, Victor B. Woolley, J. Warren Davis-had worked together for years in closest conservative harmony...
Last year, President Roosevelt was able to send New-Dealish Judge John Biggs Jr., 41, to join the "Four Old Men," as they impishly called themselves (TIME, March 15, 1937). Last week when three of the four ancients retired, their eldest, Judge Joseph Buffmgton, snowy-domed and bright-eyed at 82, drew himself up to make a speech...
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