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...rose Oldster Plummer to make a desperate appeal...
Like many another outraged oldster throughout the land, Richmond Pearson Hobson sat up late in Manhattan one night last week discussing the depravity of President Roosevelt's plan to rejuvenate the Supreme Court. Most of the nation's unofficial denouncers that night were content to vent their spleen in talk, go modestly to bed. But Richmond Pearson Hobson was a professional zealot who, in 30-odd years of windy crusading against alcohol, narcotics and un-Americanism, of drumming up fears of Japanese invasion and Communist infiltration, had never forgotten that he was once...
...open opponents of his bill were strong if not in numbers at least in conviction, in experience and ability. The opposition included all 16 Republicans in the Senate, from Youngster Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. (chosen to read Washington's Farewell Address* to the Senate on Feb. 22) to Oldster Borah, and they included such veterans as Hiram Johnson, Arthur Vandenberg and Gerald Nye. The Democrats aligned solidly with these included such gentlemen as Glass & Byrd of Virginia, Connally of Texas, Bailey of North Carolina, Wheeler of Montana, Clark of Missouri, Burke of Nebraska, George of Georgia, Van Nuys...
...Baptist, the human icicle and animated feather duster Chilly Charlie had become one of Washington's favorite dinner guests. He and Mrs. Hughes go out only on Saturday nights and are dated up months ahead.† Still not a gregarious man, he is a definitely affable and agreeable oldster who chuckles much in whiskers, and the twinkle in his eye is really there. On the 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...
...Justice Field's remark when, grown senile at 80, he was asked by his colleagues to resign from the Supreme Court. Refusing, he was reminded that he had once served on a committee to secure the resignation of another doddering Justice, Robert Cooper Grier. "Yes," blazed the stubborn oldster, "and it was the dirtiest deed of my whole life...