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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...usual, a soft buzzer sounded, the little page-boys scampered aside, the great red curtains parted, and the Justices of the U. S. Supreme Court stepped between them to their black-leather chairs behind the long mahogany bar. But this time there was a difference. At Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes' left, a chair was draped in black; on his right sat one of the loneliest men in the world. No spectator on last week's decision-day could look at gaunt, craggy-faced James Clark McReynolds* without a stir of sympathy...
Legend had little to say about his tenderness to his narrow circle of friends, his unfailing generosity, his clear legal perception, his unerring eye and ear for the false, the unessential. Least-recognized was his long-time alertness for the preservation of civil liberties...
...Long before the New Deal, old Bachelor McReynolds had come an ogre to liberals. Invariably he voted with the conservative majority. On Feb. 18, 1935 he burst out in uncontrollable wrath at the Gold Clause decision,† roared in dismayed rage: "The Constitution is gone!" One by one his colleagues retired or died. Still undenied by McReynolds was the remark attributed many times to him: "I'll never resign as long as that crippled - - is in the White House...
...split. Good union men could look skeptical while businessmen complained loudly about the cost of A. F. of L.C. I. O. conflict. They could listen, polite but unimpressed, while politicians shuddered and sighed over the fearful feud of Bill Green and John Lewis. Last week Son Elliott Roosevelt talked long and earnestly over the radio about the Chrysler strike, suggested that John Lewis' inability to make peace with Bill Green indicated he was not all "he had been cracked...
...production," cried Mr. Keller. Roland Thomas hastily announced that the demand had been withdrawn. Far from satisfied, Chrysler's Weckler demanded a guarantee (presumably from John Lewis) that no such demand by any C.I.O. union should again be made during the life of the new contract. "Just so long as the corporation continues to drag extraneous issues into the situation," replied Mr. Thomas with a straight face, "so long will the corporation have to bear the responsibility for failure ... to resume operations...