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...Elected to the board of the New York Central R. R. at its annual meeting in Albany, N. Y. was Thomas Jefferson Coolidge, new chairman of Boston's Old Colony Trust Co. and a member of that exclusive group of successful young men who served the New Deal only to part with it over fiscal policy. Others: James Paul Warburg, Dean Acheson, Lewis Douglas...
...Presidents really "pack" the Court? Indeed yes, says Mr. Hendrick. As examples he cites Jefferson, Madison, Lincoln, Grant. Congress once packed it too, when it voted to limit the Court's membership to seven rather than let President Johnson fill the two vacancies. "That all Presidents 'pack' the Court by placing in it men sympathetic with their states of mind, the record shows." But Mr. Hendrick believes that in the long run the Supreme Court, no matter whether it is regarded as a packed trunk or a Pandora's box, reflects the changing voice, the unchanged...
Seized on by Texas fishermen as a crucial case last March was the application of Humble Oil & Refining Co. for permission from the War Department to drill a well in 18 ft. of water in the Gulf of Mexico about a mile off the mainland of Jefferson County. In the Texas Legislature sportsmen and conservationists joined with fishing interests to fight for State action against the drilling, pass laws to keep Texas oil fields out of the water. This was the first time any oil company had proposed to drill in the Gulf proper and tarpon fishermen envisioned miles...
There were at least two reasons for the grizzled Senator's violence. Ambassador Dodd, a North Carolina-born history professor whose particular heroes are Thomas Jefferson and Woodrow Wilson, had inserted his dictator gossip in a long historical screed reviewing instances in which minorities, working through the Supreme Court and otherwise, had frustrated the people's will. First instance he mentioned was the fight of 1919 by which Senator Borah and other Irreconcilables blocked U. S. entry into the League of Nations. Condemning Jefferson's old enemy, Chief Justice John Marshall, as a tool of the interests...
Unreconstructed Southerners regard the Civil War as a series of tragic blunders, can still wonder what the outcome might have been if Bragg had not been so dilatory after Chickamauga, if Longstreet had not been so slow at Gettysburg, if Lee's genius had not been hamstrung by Jefferson Davis' defensive policy. Even some Northerners, looking around at what the U. S. has become and back at what the South was, can see that the Civil War might have been a tragic mistake, can wonder whether reducing the South to the lowest common denominator of the Union...