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    "title": "Letter from Mary Jane Truman to Harry S. Truman with Attached Newspaper Clippings",
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        "Pendergast, Tom, 1870-1945",
        "Swoyer, Martha Ann, 1919-2008",
        "Barkley, Alben William, 1877-1956",
        "Romine, Mary Colgan, 1885-1977",
        "Harrison, Pat, 1881-1941",
        "Truman, Martha Ellen, 1852-1947",
        "Aylward, James P. (James Patrick), 1885-1982",
        "Truman, J. Vivian (John Vivian), 1886-1965"
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    "ocrText": "1937\nA \"Yes Man\" for Senate Leader.\nIn the election of Senator Barkley of Ken-\nJULY July 22 1937 22\ntucky, \"My Dear Alben,\" as Democratic leader\nof the senate to succeed Senator Robinson,\nTHE KANSAS CITY TIMES,\nPresident Roosevelt has been SO unfortunate\nas to obtain a \"yes man\" to handle his pro-\nSEEK COURT PEACE\nBarkley Able to Speak for\nposed legislation. The President has been un-\nHours.\nfortunate, because he needs the counsel of a\nman of independent character to help protect\n(By the Associated Press.)\nWASHINGTON, July 21.-Persua-\nhim from such mistakes as the one involved\nVice-President Officially Concedes\nsion is the forte of, the new leader\nin the proposal to pack the Supreme court.\nof the Democratic majority in the\nMr. Roosevelt has shown himself to be a\nDefeat of the President's\nsenate.\nrestless leader, full of ideas, some of them\nJudiciary Proposal.\nSenator Alben W. Barkley of\ngood, some bad. For his own good and for\nKentucky, chosen today to fill the\nthe good of the country, he needs strong men\nSETTLEMENT UP TO FOES\npost of the late Joseph T. Robin-\naround him who will stand up and argue\nson of Arkansas, adheres to a\nthings out.\ntheory that soft argument brings\nHis overwhelming victory last November\nWhite House Is Willing for Wheel-\nsuccess.\nhad the very natural result of increasing the\ner and Followers to Dictate\nBut when quiet discussion fails,\nPresident's self assurance. He believed the\nthe tall and powerfully built\nCompromise.\ncountry would follow wherever he chose to\nKentuckian can hurl thundering\nlead. So he put forward his court plan with-\nwords at the opposition-for hours\nout consulting his party leaders. The adverse\nLOOK TO OTHER MEASURES\nand hours.\nreaction from the people disconcerted and\nHis friends recall his reputation\nangered him, as was clearly shown in his letter\nfor making a dozen long campaign\nto Senator Barkley last week.\nRoosevelt Hopes a Beginning Can\nspeeches a day. He was the key-\nBut apparently Mr. Roosevelt has failed to\nBe Made on Wages and Hours\nnote speaker at the last two Dem-\nocratic conventions.\nprofit by experience. He has got a senate\nand Farm Bill.\nleader who, as a Washington dispatch says,\nsince the November election indicate\nwill \"accept legislative recommendations from\nWASHINGTON BUREAU\nthe President now has an opposition\nthe White House with enthusiasm.\" In the\nTHE KANSAS CITY STAR\n610 ALBEE BUILDING\nparty in Congress. No one in the\nlong run this will not prove helpful. The\n(By a Member of The Star's Staff.)\nsenate would dispute Harrison's per-\ncountry and Congress are not disposed to go\nWASHINGTON, July 21.-The surren-\nsonal popularity. Yet the influence\nalong with such leadership.\nder of the President on the disputed\nof the White House and James A.\nsections of the Supreme court bill was\nFarley could not be denied. When\nProtect the Lower Courts, Too.\nmade official today when Vice-Presi-\nthe seven Democrats yesterday went\nThe latest development in the senate is the\nto tell Garner they could no longer\ndent Garner informed opponents of\n\"go along\" on the court, they ex-\nprospect of a compromise involving only the\nthe court bill that they had won their\npressed a willingness to give Mr.\nlower courts and a possible settlement of the\nRoosevelt anything else he desired,\nwhole court issue on that basis. It is indicated\nfight.\nincluding the leadership. Senator\nby Senator Wheeler that the lower court plan\nThe first move after the adminis-\nDieterich of Illinois, who had been\ncommitted to Harrison, switched to\nwill be worked out by opponents of the Su-\ntration captured the senate leadership\nBarkley yesterday after being urged\npreme court proposal and submitted to the ad-\nby the margin of one vote came when\nto do SO by Mayor Kelley of Chicago\nministration.\nGarner conferred with Senator Bur-\nand Pat Nash, Democratic boss, both\nUnder such conditions it might be assumed\nclose personal and political friends of\nton K. Wheeler of Montana, leader of\nFarley.\nthat any compromise arrangement affecting\nthe court foes, and said the White\nAlthough the vote on leadership\nthe circuit and district courts and judges would\nHouse was willing for Wheeler and\nwas by secret ballot, the votes being\nbe free from the dangerous features of the Su-\ntaken from a hat and called out one\nhis followers \"to write their own\npreme court program. But if it actually is to\nat a time, a tabulation of the vote\nticket.\"\nwas obtained from supporters of the\nbe so, then fundamental changes in the orig-\nGarner made it plain that the ad-\ncandidates. It follows:\ninal proposal as it touched the lower courts\nministration was looking for a grace-\nFor Barkley:\nmust be made.\nful way out of the controversy. He\nAndrews, Florida; Ashurst, Arizona;\nIn brief, two of the original provisions with\nBarkley, Kentucky; Berry, Tennes-\nwas soliciting the aid of all party\nrespect to the lower tribunals could be accepted,\nsee; Bilbo, Mississippi; Black, Ala-\nmembers to ease the blow to the\nbama; Bone, Washington; Brown, New\nwhile two others would have to be rejected\nPresident's prestige.\nHampshire; Bulkley, Ohio; Dieterich,\noutright.\nSeek a Way Out.\nIllinois; Donahey, Ohio; Duffy, Wis-\nIt had been proposed, for example, that the\nconsin; Ellender, Louisiana; Gillette,\nGarner's conference with Wheeler\ngovernment should be made a party to any\nIowa; Green, Rhode Island; Guffey,\nwas followed by another with Sena-\nPennsylvania; Hitchcock, South Da-\nsuit in which the constitutionality of a federal\ntor Alben W. Barkley, newly elected\nkota; Hughes, Delaware; Johnson,\nstatute had been challenged in a district court.\nleader. An effort will be made\nColorado; Lee, Oklahoma; Lewis, Illi-\nThat is fair enough. The government, through\nto permit the court bill to be sent\nnois; Logan, Kentucky; McAdoo,\nthe department of justice, ought to have this\nCalifornia; McGill, Kansas; McKellar,\nback to committee with as little fan-\nTennessee; Minton, Indiana; Murray,\nopportunity in the initial test of legality as a\nfare as possible. One suggestion was\nMontana; Overton, Louisiana; Pitt-\nprotection to the public interest.\nmade that it be laid aside by unani-\nman, Nevada; Pope, Idaho; Reynolds,\nAgain, it had been proposed that, to avoid\nmous consent, without a recorded\nNorth Carolina; Schwartz, Wyoming;\ndelay and possible injustice, appeals in such\nvote.\nSchwellenbach, Washington; Shep-\npard, Texas; Smathers, New Jersey;\ncases of constitutionality be taken direct from\nOther developments which grew out\nThomas, Oklahoma; Thomas, Utah,\nthe district court to the Supreme tribunal. As\nof conferences with the President and\nand Wagner, New York.\na means of expediting procedure, that would\nthe Garner meetings were these:\nFor Harrison:\nbe in order.\n1. The possibility that the court\nAdams, Colorado; Bailey, North\nbill will not be mentioned in the\nCarolina; Bankhead, Alabama;\nBut two other original suggestions, if car-\nBrown, Michigan; Bulow, South Da-\ngied out, would mean a packing of the lower\nsenate until Monday, by which\nkota; Burke, Nebraska; Byrd, Vir-\ncourts just as certainly would the proposals\ntime some sort of compromise for\nginia; Byrnes, South Carolina; Cara-\nvelating to the high court. In the first place,\nreform of lower court procedure\nway, Arkansas; Chavez, New Mexico;\nthe lower courts were to he subjected to the"
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