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antitrust
case,
complained
he
that
appointed
was
he
someone
reported
might
with
as
a
to
have
well
have
backbone
of
angered
by
macaroni.
Franklin
decisions
D.
of
Roosevelt,
the
Administration,
sought
Court
to
during
have
his
Congress
increase the number of Justices by adding
one
for
each
Justice
over
the
age
of
seventy, of whom there were then six, thus
enabling
him
to
bring
the
number
to
the
maximum of fifteen as fixed by the bill.
Called
by
its
proponents
the
Court
Reorganization Bill and by its opponents the
Court
packing
Bill,
it
was
killed
in
committee and did not reach the floor in
either house.
Every man who has sat on the Court must
have Known at the time he took office that
there always has been and in all probability
always will be controversy surrounding that
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