Word: supportable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...judgment the Supreme Court could possibly hand down. The crowning example of irony, however, rests in the action of a man like Professor Corwin who, after having devoted the greater part of his life to building up a logical constitutional case against judicial prerogatives, throws his full support behind a starkly unfaithful interpretation of the President's power. It is the old story--the same men who berate the Supreme Court for utilising its powers politically will deal in an exactly identical manner with the Constitution, if given the opportunity...
...have not yet retired. Watch me and see. The statement that we have an endowment of $250,000, would, if it were true, cut off the support of the small givers, who for 42 years have been the backbone of our aggressive organization...
...President's message was an argument for a change in the judiciary on the simple grounds of good government, his major proposal had an ulterior motive. It was patently contrived to let him override the Supreme Court as now constituted by adding or replacing Justices to support the legal contentions of the New Deal. Conservatives Butler, 70, Sutherland and Hughes, 74, McReynolds, 75, Van Devanter, 77, are all of retirement age. Of the Liberals, only Justice Brandeis, 80, would be affected...
...Senate support of the bill was not strengthened by the President's criticism of oldsters, nor by the fact that Senators like Robinson of Arkansas and Wagner of New York, who have been considered for the first vacancies on the Supreme Court, will not be eligible for any of the new posts proposed.* Senator Van Nuys of Indiana, a member of the Judiciary Committee, announced that he would insist on the Justices of the Supreme Court being called to give their views on the bill. Promptly several other members backed...
...Howard's question whether he is a Free Mason, adding a blanket disclaimer that his Whites have anything to do with the Grand Orient. Franco affirmed that his Government would negotiate a concordat with the Vatican, insuring that Spain remain Catholic. He refused to answer whether he would support restoration of the Monarchy, refused to guess when Madrid might be captured. On the historic Spanish question of Catalonia, always violently separatist, the Generalissimo said: "Catalonia is as much a part of Spain as Lancashire is a part of England or Pennsylvania is a State in the Union. The world...