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Month ago when he took the President's commission to find a Court compromise and push it through (TIME, June 14 et seq.) it had not looked difficult. Instead of six new justices at one fell swoop, he had chosen a plan for four new justices, one a year, and had had no difficulty in finding some 54 of the 96 Senators who seemed willing to vote for this modified plan. But during the week of debate, men on whom he had counted had been slipping away. The opposition had been arguing that if it was wrong to pack...
...third term. Fred W. Perkins, oldtime newshawk attached to Scripps-Howard's Pittsburgh Press, brought it up. Robert Post, Harvard '32 and a lodge-brother of the Roosevelts in Harvard's Fly Club, now a newshawklet for the New York Times helped to push the question home...
...dissatisfaction with the fight, 2) confusion after it. In 1930 Max Schmeling won the title from Jack Sharkey on a foul. In 1932 Sharkey won it back on a decision which many experts considered erroneous. In 1933, Primo Camera knocked out Jack Sharkey with what looked like a gentle push. In 1934, clownish Max Baer knocked out Camera in an eccentric bout. In 1935, Braddock outpointed Baer in a hopelessly dull bout. Last week's fight left the heavyweight situation in some respects even more confused than before, but the major difference between it and its predecessors was that...
Technician Brown, long at the profession and in a hurry, as everyone at busy Bellevue must be, told the girl to turn on her side for another view of her insides. As he slid a second cassette under her with his right hand, with his left he started to push the tube into position. Then the accident happened which X-ray operators fear more than the sterilization which their profession makes practically inevitable...
...stanch Democratic Senators, of whom Senator Robinson was one, went to the White House and said flatly that Relief spending had to be reduced. They said it so flatly that Franklin Roosevelt listened to them and gave them reassurance. Inasmuch as the President was last week trying to push his Relief bill through Congress without, so far as could be seen, making any concessions to economy or making good on his original reassurance, whatever it may have been, the reason for Senator Robinson's anger was self-evident...