It is an immemorial custom each autumn when the U. S. Supreme Court assembles, for the Justices, as part of their first day's work to pay a formal call on the President. This year the Court convened on Oct. 7 but the call had to be postponed because Franklin Roosevelt, aboard the U. S. S. Houston, was then somewhere near the Cocos Islands. Month ago, when the President returned to the Capital, he was very busy and since the call had been postponed the Justices had no objection to letting it go to...
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