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...Harvard Law School (1922), grandson of a Delaware Governor and son of a Delaware Attorney General, Judge Biggs is only 41. He had the political good fortune in 1932, when chairman of the Delaware delegation to the Democratic Convention, to be For-Roosevelt-Before-Chicago. Pennsylvania's Senator Guffey got a bill through the last Congress providing for the appointment of a fifth judge to the Third Circuit, for the reason that Judge Victor Baynard Woolley, aWilsonian Democrat, has been seriously ill for two years. Interesting was the appointment of a fifth judge because ailing Judge Woolley will...
...time for those who take this hint to be working out alternative plans to those of the President. The people whom he tried to aid in the A.A.A. and the Guffey Coal Bill and the N.R.A. will not respond to violent denunciations of the law; they will rise up and vote for sounder and better-drafted measures. Likewise is it futile to roar "Communism" and "Fascism" when additions to the Supreme Court are mentioned. An effective opposition must prove to the public that the broad interpretation of the Constitution is not needed as quickly as the President thinks...
...public side he has come to represent something new to liberals. Besides voting on the liberal side in pre-New Deal cases, he wrote the dissenting (liberal) opinion in the New York Minimum Wage Law case, and declined to go so far as the majority in throwing out the Guffey Coal Act lock, stock & barrel. Yet he is definitely in liberal disfavor, not so much because of his anti-New Deal votes in other cases, as for something they sense in his attitude...
...Senator Guffey about it," he insisted. "Senator Guffey is the big cheese...
...years ago. when Speaker Henry Rainey died, Vice President Garner quietly pushed Mr. Rayburn forward for the job of Speaker. He lost because Senator Guffey, then as now big cheese in Pennsylvania, canvassed his House delegation, announced they would vote solidly for Joe Byrns. Thereafter Mr. Rayburn withdrew from the contest. This year matters are different. Sam Rayburn is better known, partly because he is head of the Interstate & Foreign Commerce Committee (he has no other committee assignments) and as such fathered the utility holding company (death sentence) bill. Doing so won him the approval of Franklin Roosevelt...