Word: republicans
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Rush & Fuss. The President's shortlived attack came after a hectic four days in which he flew to Florida, spent two days aboard the carrier Saratoga, worked on and delivered a major pep talk to Republican leaders meeting in Washington, and drove to Washington's American University to deliver a speech (in praise of the U.S. Foreign Service) while receiving an honorary doctor of laws degree. Over and above all else, the President was fretting about two items of substance: 1) the future of his legislative program, especially military and foreign-aid appropriations; and 2) the wrangle with...
...gutting the bill, Southern legislators rallied around an amendment taking contempt punishment out of the judge's hands and putting it in the hands of a jury. The trial-by-jury cry, a ,pretty good rabble-rouser, stirred up so much emotion that many a conservative Midwest Republican found it a handy pretext for joining Southern Democrats on the amendment...
...Martin's job. obviously, was to offset this cornfield maneuvering with cloakroom argument. So effective were his efforts that, when the decisive vote finally came last week, the Southern Democrat-Midwest Republican coalition was punctured and the trial-by-jury amendment collapsed with...
...Southerners managed to outflank Joe Martin only once. Determined to find a conservative Republican who would introduce the trial-by-jury amendment for them, they lighted on Illinois' Freshman Russell Watson Keeney of Wheaton. It was Keeney who sponsored an amendment guaranteeing jury trials in criminal (but not civil) contempt proceedings. But when, at the climax of the ten-day debate, the amendment came to a vote, Joe Martin coolly predicted that he would lose no more than 40 Republicans. He actually lost 39 on the 199-167 tally...
...newest member of the Supreme Court, Republican Charles Evans Whittaker, has not yet been around long enough to become identified with any group. (The arguments in both the Du Pont and Jencks cases had started before Whittaker joined the court.) But it is in Whittaker that the Supreme Court may find its spokesman for legal realism as against Warren's legal idealism. Asked about his attitudes of legal interpretation, Whittaker set out a signpost of his own: "I read the law only for an understanding of its meaning, and apply and enforce it in accordance with my understanding...