Word: recommending
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President made his proposals: Let the Chief Justice have power to assign temporarily lower court justices from one court to another when dockets grow crowded. Let the Supreme Court have a new officer, a $10,000-a-year "proctor" to watch for congestion in the lower courts and recommend transfers of judges and other steps to relieve it. Let any decision on the constitutionality of a law be appealed directly to the Supreme Court, there to take precedence over other cases so that the constitutionality of laws be not long in doubt...
...These recommendations would not have stirred any one deeply, least of all the President. The kernel of his message came when he read, "I therefore earnestly recommend . . . the appointment of additional judges in all Federal courts, without exception, where there are incumbent judges of retirement age who do not choose to retire or resign." This meant, according to the draft of the bill which he sent with his message, that he would be empowered to appoint not more than 50 new judges to duplicate those who are now 70 and have been ten years on the bench. Not stated...
...remedy this situation, the Council offered "no magic formula." It neither condemned the schools, nor suggested, as some have done, that the University put them out of business by establishing its own. It did, however, recommend that University publications should not be allowed to accept advertising from the tutoring schools. This would mean a $3,000 annual loss to The Crimson alone...
...hand there is the traditional freedom which Harvard gives its students to study or not to study, and thus to educate themselves. On the other is the undeniable fact that this freedom is abused by many and consequently, the logical, but highly dangerous, desire to recommend that students be denied this freedom...
...might get up a crap game with Jones and his roomies if you are hard put. There are also several good shows in town. I can recommend "Frederika", "Blossom Time", "Fulton of Oak Falls", and "Jane Eyre", having seen them all myself during Reading Period. You know the night spots yourself. They aren't much but you can lose your more weighty cares among them...