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Also this new group will consider questions relating to managerial competitions, as well as initiating action on new insignia awards, and having supervision over all cheerleaders. Further it shall have power to appoint committees to provide for the entertainment of visiting teams and committees to act in any advisory capacity...
...appoint you Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury." These were the traditional words, spoken by King George, that greeted Mr. Chamberlain a few minutes later. Mr. Chamberlain knelt, kissed His Majesty's hand. The King passed over the seals of office and the keys of the Prime Minister's dispatch box. 'Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain rose to his feet. By this brief ceremony he had reached the top rung of Britain's political ladder, a height attained neither by his father Joseph nor his more-publicized late half-brother Sir Austen...
...that Justice Brandeis, who is 80 and belongs to the opposite, liberal wing of the Court, would retire at the same time, but Mr. Brandeis was adamant. He would not retire while the Court was under fire. So Mr. Van Devanter retired single-handed,* giving the President opportunity to appoint a liberal in his place. Thus he pulled a second prop from beneath the President's position, for liberals in Congress felt there was still less need for enlarging the Court to insure a liberal majority. Result: the one promising chance of the President's getting his plan...
...President had not promised, Joe Robinson's chances might have been slim. But Senators are touchy about past examples of the changeability of the Roosevelt mind, and among good politicians a promise is a sacred thing. There was talk in the cloakrooms that if Joe Robinson were not appointed, no one else would be confirmed. If this was a bit fantastic, there remained the likelihood that by failure to appoint Joe Robinson, the President would stir up a bigger nest of hornets than he had by his Supreme Court bill...
With the announcement that Associate Justice Willis Van Devanter of the Supreme Court is going to retire on June 2, the way is opened for the President to appoint a new member to the court. The two men most prominently mentioned an possibilities for this appointment are both members of the Harvard faculty...