HOOVER’S FIRST DEFEAT
NOMINATION OF JUDGE. REFUSAL BY SENATE. WASHINGTON, May 7. President suffered his first major defeat in Congress when the Senate by a vote of 39 to 41 did not accept ths nomination of Mr John Parker, a North Carolina jurist, for Justice of the United States Supreme Court. , It was the first rejection of such a nominee in 36 years, and was due chiefly to the bitter opposition of the organised labour and negro organisations Despite strenuous efforts by President Hoover’s lieutenants the Senate de-c-ines to accept the designation.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 73, Issue 108, 9 May 1930, Page 7
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