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...board the Potomac for a weekend cruise on Chesapeake Bay were members of the President's personal staff and Indiana's Senator Sherman Minton-whose name was presumably the last crossed off the President's list of possibilities before he nominated Hugo L. Black for the Supreme Court...
...remarks to the press in leaving were almost ignored in the excitement of bigger news, but they were not overlooked at the Capitol. Of Indiana's two Democratic Senators, one, Frederick Van Nuys has been a vigorous opponent of the President's Court Plan, the other, Sherman Minton, as vigorous a supporter. Governor Townsend told the press that he didn't "think the organization could nominate Van Nuys again." At the Capitol the Governor's words were taken to have but one meaning, that Franklin Roosevelt had determined to punish Mr. Van Nuys for daring...
Next day Senator Minton was speaking for the second time on behalf of the bill, yielded to permit a conference report on the War Department Appropriation bill to be made to the Senate. Senator Clark quickly made the point of order that since Mr. Minton had yielded for other than a question, his second opportunity to speak was ended and he must thereafter hold his peace. Senator Guffey was in the chair and for 20 minutes a desperate parliamentary wrangle raged. Then Senator Pittman returned to the chair and ruled that Mr. Minton was within his rights, could continue...
Last week it was revealed that Mrs. Theresa Krull of Indianapolis had sent Senator Minton this embarrassing reply: "... I am a member of the General Arthur St. Clair Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, composed of representative Indianapolis women who have protested against the President's Supreme Court ideas. I have seen your reply, regrettably fallacious and addressed to 'Dear General.' I would beg to inform you that the General, worthy patriot that he was, has been inaccessible to letter-writing since his death in 1818-one would suggest that both you and your secretary inform themselves...
...Bowie, Md. racetrack Vice President John Nance Garner, Senators Nathan Lynn Bachtnan of Tennessee and Sherman Minton of Indiana bet $2 each on Minton, a rank outsider, won $24.90 apiece when Minton came in first...