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Show Merry-Co-Round By DREW PEARSON and ROBERT S. ALLEN WASHINGTON Laborite and senate liberals lib-erals are agitated over an authoritative report that Donald R. Richberg. one-time N R A boss and "assistant president," has the inside track for appointment to the first vacancy that occurs oc-curs on the supreme court. Intimations that Richberg's name heads the president's list of supreme court possibilities have been current for some time. But, because of his pronounced unpopularity unpopular-ity with senate liberals and labor, the reports at first were not taken seriously. With these two powerful groups aligned against him, it was considered unlikely that the president would risk a vitriolic senate debate by naming him. In the last week, however, confirmation of the report has come from an inner White House source whose reliability is beyond question. Labor hostility toward Richberg goes back to his scuttling of section 7A, the famous collective col-lective bargaining provision of the N R A. For this, labor assailed him bitterly. On one occasion, oc-casion, John L. Lewis, head of the militant committee com-mittee for industrial organization, refused to -have his picture taken with Ricbberg. It is entirely possible that discreet warning msy be given Roosevelt that, if he names Richberg Rich-berg to a vacancy on the court, senate confirmation confirma-tion will be fought tooth and nail. Lost Picture Of the nine members of the supreme court, Juitio James Clark M (-Reynolds is chiefly noted! for his churlish disposition. He refuses to lunch with his colleague and, ' when Justice Cardoso was sworn into office, McReynolds ostentatiously read a newspaper.. On another occasion. Justice Ston was so offended of-fended at a remark made by McReynolds that he left the room. McReynolds also entertains no great lovo for Chief Justice Hughes and, while playing golf the other day, a companion remarked to McReynolds that it Waa odd there had been no new picture of the supreme court for several years. To this the justice smiled and replied: "Shortly after we moved into the new building build-ing the chief justice thought we ought to have a group picture made of the entire court seated in the new qusrters. You know, he loves to lea his nicture in the paper. "However, I didn't say anything, and he went head and made the arrangements for the photograph. pho-tograph. But when the dsy came for the picture taking I just didn't show up, so they couldn't use it: Presidential Aspirant No Democrat on Capitol hill is more dogged In his hostility to th new deal than Senator Harry F. Byrd. Because he is a poor speaker and shrinks from noisy antics, the opposition of the aristocratic aristo-cratic Virginian is far less publicized then that of his late colleague, Huey P. Long. But, while less known, it is just as virulent. Behind this attitude is a secret ambition. Byrd bums with desire for the presidency. Forty-nine years old and the possessor of a famous fa-mous name, he considers himself equipped with all th appurtenance necessary for the Democratic Demo-cratic nomination. Also, Byrd is convinced that by 1940 the current liberal trend will have petered out and there will be a strong demand for a conservative, conserva-tive, So, in his quiet, tenacious way, he is pounding pound-ing at the administration, building himself up in the public mind as a champion of economy and a foe of governmental spending. This is the inside strategy behind his crusade cru-sade for government reorganization. Actually, Byrd is not a recognized authority on the federal system. His facts and figure are supplied by a group of hired researchers and his idea of revamping the governmental structure struc-ture is nothing else but a wholesale discharge of government workers, with an arbitrary slashing of expenditures. Prize Glass Collecting th water tumblers used by President Presi-dent Roosevelt during his appearances on Capitol Capi-tol hill has become a major congressional pursuit. pur-suit. Congressmen scramble for the glasses like joyous collegians for the goal posts of a football team. When tha president left the house rostrum ros-trum after his message to congress, a dozen members jostled each other for the tumbler from which he had sipped during his speech. Th slashing, cold deluge during the inaugural inau-gural ceremony drenched onlookers and participant par-ticipant to the skin, but it did not dampen th ardor of the tumbler collectors. As the president presi-dent turned to depart they rushed for his water glass. Representative Harry Haines, chairman of Pennsylvania' large Democratic delegation, emerged victor in the race. And it is putting it mildly to say he is proud of his triumph and trophy. Pending th completion of a glass case and brass plat which he has ordered. Haines has the tumbler locked in a bookcase under which is printed sign bearing these words: "This is the drinking glass used by President Franklin D. Roosevelt at his inauguration on January 20, 1937." jlCesrilsat, XSSt, ValU rtifn Sndieste, Inc.). |