June 15: ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY
ON THIS DAY IN 1928, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle reported, “Senator Charles Curtis of Kansas has Indian blood in his veins and in his youth wore the regulation blanket of his Indian forefathers. He was born Jan. 25, 1860, on the Kaw Indian reservation in Kansas, a descendant of a line of Indian chieftains and French and Canadian traders. His mother died when he was a child, and he was brought up by an Indian grandmother, who later sent him to his white relatives in Topeka for a white man’s education. The education he got, which made him a U.S. senator and now a candidate for vice president of the United States, was the conglomerate outcome of what he learned in such ‘big cities’ as Topeka and out on the near-frontiers of Kansas and vicinity. He became famous in the west as a jockey, he worked as a hack driver, practiced law and taught Sunday school, and became an anti-vice crusader. Eventually he was elected as a representative from his own state. He had been before mentioned for the Republican vice presidential nomination.”
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ON THIS DAY IN 1937, the Eagle reported, “WASHINGTON (A.P.) — Administration forces left it up to Majority Leader [Joe T.] Robinson (D., Ark.) today to decide when to begin Senate debate on the Roosevelt court bill. The heavy-set Arkansan, boomed by many colleagues for a place on the Supreme Court, kept his own counsel. He took no formal notice of reports that efforts to devise an acceptable compromise were proceeding in private. The court bill was put on the calendar yesterday after ten members of the Judiciary Committee submitted a fiery report opposing its enactment … A leading opposition senator, who asked not to be quoted by name, said a motion to take up the court bill might come from the foes unless Robinson takes the initiative within two weeks. Once it does begin, debate on the bill adding up to six justices to the Supreme Court — unless justices over 70 retire — may last more than six weeks, foes of the measure said. ‘Unless the ‘packing plan’ and proposal for ‘roving justices’ are dropped,’ said Senator [Burton K.] Wheeler (D., Mont.), ‘this session won’t be over by October.’”
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