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In a Supreme Court Justice none of these things are objectionable. Important, however, is the question of whom he may eventually be objectionable to—liberals or conservatives—once he is on the bench. Justice McReynolds mounted it as Wood-row Wilson's trust-busting Attorney General. No man can assert that a mellowing Justice Black will revert to hereditary Southern conservatism. Neither can any man predict the course of a Justice's convictions once he is secure for life in a $20,000-a-year job, all trials of reelection forever behind him. Those who know trigger-brained Hugo Black best deny that he can be counted a. Roosevelt yes-man in the future.
*Said Washington wags last week: "Hugo won't have to buy a robe; he can dye his white one black."
*Says Article I of the Constitution: "No Senator or Representative shall, during the time for which he was elected, be appointed to any civil office under the authority of the United States which shall have been created, or the emoluments whereof shall have been increased during such time. . . ." Actually the Retirement Act does not increase the emoluments of Justices but guarantees their pensions against reduction.
*John M. Harlan was 44, Charles Evans Hughes 48, Edward D. White 49.