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...There are a least two ways of getting rid of judges," he declared. "One is to take them out and shoot them, as they are reported to do in at least one other country. The other way is more genteel, but no less effective. They are kept on he public payroll but their votes are cancelled...
...President's assertion that "substantially the same elements" oppose his Court proposal as opposed all his liberal program, moved the genteel Times to use its equivalent for a four-letter word: "This statement is not in accordance with demonstrated facts." The Times and others pointed at 20 or more loyal Democratic Senators, at liberals such as Norris, Wheeler, Nye, at many pro-Roosevelt newspapers which now oppose the Court proposal. Senator Edward R. Burke of Nebraska, leader of the pro-Court wing among Senate Democrats, declared: "If the President thinks that . . . those 'defeatist lawyers...
...that he was the only man that the Azana Government at that time could get to take the post of Minister of War. The only man on whom they could rely to do their bidding. The man who had pocketed the soldier's pay, and other little genteel acts along those lines. I quote from a letter smuggled out of Madrid: "It is certain that the militia had not the courage to go out and fight the battle in the open but have consistently run back into the city where they are now skulking in among the women...
...testimony she last week swore to in a Newark court, a wayward New Jersey girl named Anna Bartholomeo found herself pregnant and speedily learned about " 'Dr.' Harley's place." This was an eleven-room house in a respectable Newark neighborhood where one George E. Harley, a genteel little malpractitioner, conducted an anti-birth insurance business. For $2 a month, paid in advance, "Dr." Harley guaranteed that no cus tomer need have a baby. For contracep tive he dispensed a "Magic Oil." In case of pregnancy he stood ready to perform an abortion...
...standpoint, Messrs. Sloan and Knudsen promptly walked out and abandoned their conference with Governor Murphy and Madam Secretary Perkins. Mr. Sloan declared that after Mr. Lewis' demand it was "futile" to continue. The press, including many liberal papers generally sympathetic with Mr. Lewis, expressed its disapprobation. The genteel New York Times said: "Mr. Lewis had a full supply of impudence with him." If President Roosevelt had been embarrassed by John Lewis' demand that his automobile union be accorded the right to speak for all General Motors workers, he had reason to be even more embarrassed by Mr. Lewis...