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Overlooked Hazards. The Senate has utterly rejected 19 nominees. In 1866, Congress was so angry with Andrew Johnson that it simply abolished the tenth court seat then in existence rather than approve a Johnson appointee. In 1930 Herbert Hoover overlooked labor opposition to Judge John J. Parker-known as "Yellow Dog" Parker in union circles for a decision upholding so-called yellow-dog labor contracts that barred workers from joining noncompa-ny unions. No nominee has been rejected since Parker, but the hazard is always present...
...capacity to unify all factions and win an election. He would have to be something like the composite superfigure in the 100 Pipers Scotch ads-one with the party loyalty of a Taft, the looks of a Teddy Roosevelt, the tongue of a Lincoln, the humanitarianism of a Hoover, and the probity of an Eisenhower...
...will not be an easy year for liberals. If an excess of affection for privileged people and antique ideas has been the misfortune of the Republican Party, war has been the tragedy of the Democrats. The first World War brought us the long blight of Harding, Coolidge and Hoover. The aftermath of World War II brought a Republican Congress including what responsible historians may well consider the most retarded statesmen since King John. The Korean war brought the defeat of Adlai Stevenson, the loss of both houses of Congress and the eight years of Eisenhower and Dulles...
...recently as two months ago, with FBI Boss J. Edgar Hoover and Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen both vociferously opposed to the pact, its chances seemed nonexistent. The turn ing point came on Jan. 31, when Kentucky's Republican Senator Thruston Morton rose to deliver a moving plea for passage of the treaty...
...that reason, Charles Evans Hughes Jr. resigned as Solicitor General in 1930 when his father was appointed Chief Justice by Herbert Hoover...