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...Council, which Goodhue is joining as the youngest class representative, includes 65 agents, among whom are such men as Bishop William Lawrence '71, Judge Robert Grant '73, Charles C. Burlingham '79, John L. Saltonstall '00, John Richardson '08, Robert T. P. Storer '14, and Forrester A. Clark...
...opening program of the Composers' Forum-Laboratory is as follows: String Quartet No. 2 Walter Hamor Piston. Three Songs Walter Raymond Spalding (A) Aubado (B) Sea Song (C) Sorrow and Joy Sextette for Wind Instruments and Piano Edward Burlingham Hill Trio in C for violin, violincello and piano William Clifford Hoilman Psalm 137 for mixed chorus Fan Stylian Noli
What particularly impresses one on reading the Burlingham speech is not just the fact that here is a liberal Democratic lawyer standing in the way of a liberal Democratic president on the issue of whether the Supreme Court should be compelled at the point of a gun to conform to the liberal doctrines of the current majority in power. For the country seems pretty well agreed at the moment that the tribunal could shift a long way to she left and still sit on the right of the Administration's political philosophy. Rather what takes...
Another phase of Mr. Burlingham's attack on the proposal appears in the scorn which he heaps on the "docile Attorney General", a man who a few years back was able to write in defense of maintaining an independent judiciary, but who, after losing a few cases before that august body, grew tired of it all and decided that doing away with it was the easiest way out. But somehow to change color like a chameleon is not unusual in public life today. Senator Harrison, for instance, can be counted on for a new tax measure shortly after he predicts...
...talking as long as it wants, but when the votes are mustered the reorganization will go through. It is impossible to contest the judgment of so clairvoyant a political prophet. The reorganization probably will go through. But meanwhile it is significant that there are liberals left like Mr. Burlingham who are willing to get up and contest the proposal to do away with the independent judiciary, a proposal which after all is the most reactionary idea that has yet sprung from the fertile imagination of the President of the United States...