Events piled on Franklin Roosevelt thick & fast at last week's beginning: Justice Van Devanter's resignation, adverse committee's vote on his Supreme Court Plan, the Senate's "nomination'' of Leader Joseph T. Robinson for the Court (see p. 17). By the week's end, however, he was again pushing events before him, getting under way his first big project since his return from the tantalizing tarpon of Texas: his drive for wage & hour legislation.
By ones and twos and small platoons, Braintrusters, Congressmen and labor leaders passed before his desk, giving advice and taking...
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