U.S.A. SUPREME COURT
PRESIDENT’S PLAN DEBATED. [by CABLE —PBESS ASSN. —OOPYBIGHT.] WASHINGTON, February 15. Senator Sherman Minton, in a radio address, urged the nation to support President Roosevelt’s plan to change the personnel of the Supreme Court bench, to “restore the balance of government which was thrown out and killed by five of the present members of the Supreme Court.” He asserted that five justices under the present, system had more power than the President and Congress combined. Senator Carter Glass, in an Interview, criticised the address of the At-torney-General (Mr. Homer S. Cummings), supporting the President, as evasive, disingenuous, and misleading. “I think that it indicates that the country is in infinitely greater need of an attorney-general than of additional justices or judicial wet-nurses for six of the present justices.” Seantor W. G. McAdoo will defend the plan in a radio address on Tuesday night, and Senator J. F. Byrnes on Wednesday. The President is ready to'use one of his famous radio “fireside chats,” if necessary.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 17 February 1937, Page 7
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