Word: plans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last year he had almost the air of coasting with his hands off the handlebars. But last week he gave clear signs of rolling up his sleeves and going to work like a man who knows he has a real job ahead. That job was to put through his plan for putting New Dealers on the Supreme Court...
...James F. Byrnes of South Carolina, the suave personal envoy. All three were present one noon last week when Senator Robinson summoned newsmen to his office to discuss the President's breathtaking proposal for rejuvenating the Judiciary (TIME, Feb. 15). Talk skimmed over various features of the plan. "Speaking solely for Joe Robinson." the 64-year-old Majority Leader, who hopes his next step up will be to the Supreme Court bench, observed that justices might well be superannuated at 75 instead of the President...
...interview ended, one reporter lingered to suggest that the public would view the plan more favorably if it were assured that the Supreme Court might be increased to 15 only temporarily. That, declared Senator Robinson, was exactly what the President contemplated. With interpolations by Senator Byrnes, he proceeded to dictate a statement making the point entirely clear: "Any increase above nine in the membership of the Court can exist only so long as there are judges eligible for retirement. When judges retire the number is reduced by the number retiring. The purpose is always to keep nine members...
...Byrnes & Harrison was typical of the confusion which prevailed in Washington last week after the first shock of the President's proposal had passed. California's Hiram Johnson, Missouri's Bennett Champ Clark and Montana's Burton K. Wheeler made up their minds against the plan. But after the first quick division for & against, the 30-odd remaining Senators who held the balance of power were lying low, waiting to see how the wind blew. Letters from constituents and memorials from State Legislatures were mostly pro-Court, but there were enough pro-President to give Congressmen...
...September 1864, General William Tecumseh Sherman finally succeeded in taking Atlanta. After surveying his well-equipped army in the Georgia city, he proposed a bold plan which he thought would be so destructive to military resources and civilian morale that the exhausted Confederates would throw up the sponge and end the Civil War. In November, after General Grant had reluctantly sanctioned this maneuver, General Sherman assured everyone that he would "make Georgia howl," and began his historic March To The Sea. A month later, when the March ended at Savannah, Georgians had ample reason to howl and howl they...