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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Court Friends Will Organize. : Foes Of Roosevelt Scheme Decide To Set Up Formal Campaign Group. Northwest History. National Topics. General. O-S. United States]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Court]]></dcterms:subject>
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    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[March 2]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Congressmen]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Administration]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Court program]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Recruits]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Senate]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Leaders]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Vandenberg]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Harry L. Hopkins]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[WPA administrator]]></dcterms:subject>
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    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Senator Clark]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Election]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[President Roosevelt]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Sumners bill]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Retirement]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Supreme court justices]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Senator Vandenberg]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Republican leaders]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Organization]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Radio]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Hopkins]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Mr. Roosevelt]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Mandate]]></dcterms:subject>
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    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Missourian]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Liberalism]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Abolishing]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Court Friends Will Organize. : Foes Of Roosevelt Scheme Decide To Set Up Formal Campaign Group.; COURT FRIENDS WILL ORGANIZE Foes of Roosevelt Scheme Decide to Set Up Formal Campaign Group. WASHINGTON, March 2. (AP)‚Äî Congressmen opposed to the administration's court program, who have been only loosely united, switched their tactics today and decided to set up formal campaign organizations. A group of house democrats arranged to appoint a steering committee to seek recruits among the many noncommittal members. In the senate recognized leaders are to be chosen, it was learned, in the place of a half dozen members who have been outlining the attack informally. Vandenberg to Talk. Other developments in the court battle: 1. Harry L. Hopkins, WPA administrator, declared "two or three elderly judges" could block social legislation unless the supreme court's complexion is changed. 2. Senator Clark (Dem., Mo.) denied the 1936 election gave President Roosevelt a mandate for his court program. 8. The president signed into law the Sumners bill authorizing voluntary retirement of supreme court justices at 70 on full pay. 4. Senator Vandenberg of Michigan, one of the republican leaders who have been holding their fire, will deliver a radio address tonight. The approach of senate committee hearings next week was ascribed by some opponents as reason for a more closely knit organization. Foes of Plan Meet. Democratic representatives fighting the president's program met last night to discuss strategy. Some declared at least 90 democrats were lined up, but that only: about half that number attended, the meeting. Hopkins, delivered a radio dress during the evening and was followed promptly to the microphone by Senator Clark. "It is a plain fact at the present time," Hopkins declared, "that v. less the complexion of the supreme court can be changed, two three elderly judges living cloistered seclusion and thinking in terms of a bygone day, block nearly all efforts of a popularly elected president, and popularly elected congress to correct ills." Aids Democracy. If Mr. Roosevelt wanted to become a dictator, he argued, would try to curb congress. "Instead," Hopkins said, seems to strengthen democracy by restoring to congress the powers of which it has been increasingly deprived these last few years by a majority of the supreme court. "He is striving in that way to keep the court from thwarting the desires of the great majority of the "Those who oppose this plan not afraid for democracy. They are afraid of democracy." Senator Clark, one of the opposition leaders, denied that the November election gave Mr. Roosevelt the right to recommend court changes. No Such Mandate. "No such mandate was received from the people," he said, "for the all-sufficient reason that no such issue was submitted to the people The age of present supreme court justices, the Missourian asserted, "is merely the basis for temporary expedient for packing the court for a definite purpose. Mere age is not a test either of efficiency or liberalism. "My objection is not so much to the increase in the size of the supreme court, although I deem so large an increase inadvisable. It is because it amounts essentially to abolishing the court as it has existed since the foundation of the republic.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:creator><![CDATA[The Spokesman Review]]></dcterms:creator>
    <dcterms:source><![CDATA[Northwest Digital Heritage]]></dcterms:source>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[3/3/37]]></dcterms:date>
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