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5. Justices Byrnes and McReynolds.
1. Chief Justice Stone and Justice Byrnes.
3. Justices Jackson and Byrnes.
The U.S. picture of Robert Jackson and Senator Byrnes was not so clear. New Dealers have long insisted that Attorney General Jackson would not go to the Court unless he went as Chief Justice, but last week there was no mistaking Robert Jackson's elation. Chief reservation about him...
So Franklin Roosevelt filled out the reorganized Court. The Nine Old Men had not, after all, been replaced by Fifteen Young Radicals. Whatever their individual differences, a majority of the Justices-Stone, Roberts, Reed, Frankfurter, Byrnes -were not social theorists, and the new Court was not likely to be ridiculed...