Word: parkers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Causes of Judge Parker's rejection, the first in 36 years, could be ascribed to four major forces...
...less concrete factors militated against him: 1) A growing desire within the Senate to dictate judicial appointments to the President under the "advise" clause of the Constitution; 2) Consideration of the Parker appointment in open, executive session which gave Senators no chance to weasel on their votes...
Wild words preceded the vote. Arizona's Senator Ashurst charged that the Administration was trying to barter judgeships for Parker votes, named Washington's Senator Dill as the recipient of such an offer. Senator Dill explained that a private friend had said something about a judgeship but that he (Dill) considered it only a joke. California's Senator Johnson rattled off a speech against confirmation at such high speed that the galleries heard only a blur of sound. Idaho's Sena- tor Borah was in the middle of a long, involved sentence when he was cut short by the Vice...
...regular Republicans deserted President Hoover. The change of one vote would have produced a tie which Vice President Curtis would have broken in favor of Judge Parker...
Reaction to the Roberts nomination in the Senate was guarded and noncommittal until his public record was thoroughly explored. (Judge Parker was bountifully praised at first by uninformed Senators who later helped to reject...