JUDICIARY: Shortridge's Protégé

Day after day last week Vice President Garner mounted his Senate rostrum, turtled his chin gravely down into his collar and ordered big-bodied Sergeant-at-arms Chesley W. Jurney to proclaim as follows:

"Hear Ye! Hear Ye! Hear Ye! All persons are commanded to keep silence on pain of imprisonment while the Senate of the United States is sitting for the trial of the articles of impeachment exhibited by the House of Representatives against Harold Louderback, judge of the district court of the northern district of California."

The Senate was performing its rarest and highest constitutional...

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