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||} AMATEUR HE MARCH OF TIME .ssue No. 9— SYNOPSES OF THE EPISODES THE SUPREME COURT Two weeks after his second inaugural, President Roose- velt proposed to Congress and to the nation that he appoint six new Justices to the Supreme Court if the present Justices, over the age of 70, refuse to retire. Immediately a great con- troversy swept across the country. The biggest mail in his- tory flooded the Senate’s private postoffice, daily revealing in letters of protest and endorsement the interest of U. S. citizens in the President’s proposal. In the Senate, a once-solid Democratic majority is split. Loud in protest against the President's proposal are seasoned Democrats like Clark of Missouri, Glass of Virginia, Mon- tana’s Burton K. Wheeler. The public, remembering those decisions of the Supreme Court in the last two years that had scrapped fundamental New Deal reforms, follows with new interest the progress through the Federal Courts of a current momentous Constitutional case—the Wagner Nation- al Labor Relations bill. Today’s conflict between the Executive and the Judiciary is the sixth in all U. S. history and perhaps the most signifi- cant. {In the Court there are but three Justices pleasing to New Deal liberals. Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes is SLEUTHS To the 10 million U. 5. citizens that each month avidly read hundreds of pulp-paper magazines and thousands of detective novels, the detective’s job is a highly romanti- cized one they envy. Ambitious amateurs who fancy themselves as master-mind detectives find live thrills in the innovation in pulp magazines—real rogues’ gallery pictures of actual men wanted by the police. Newest slant for am- ateur sleuths are the Photocrime and the Crimefile, combi- nations of clues assembled in professional manner, enabling crime addicts to match their wits against the craftiest of criminals. In New Jersey a group of business and professional men decided a few years ago to do something with this hobby. Pooling the resources of their professions they developed the first private Crime Detection Paboratory in America, En- gineers, dentists, doctors, designers, they become experts in BRITAIN’S FOOD DEFENSES ° Famed is England for her rich solid food—her roast beef and plum pudding. But nearly half of this food that Eng- land eats must be imported and without that half 45 million Britons would starve within three months. Only stoppage of this supply is war and as the clouds gather over Europe, against war all England is preparing, Launching a recruit- ing drive to rebuild her army to war strength, she discovers an appalling fact—one half of the applicants are rejected as unfit for service, ironically, for tack of proper foo Despite the knowledge that food had been scarce for a decade in England’s distressed areas, the nation is shocked by a report of dietary experts. It reveals that 22,500,000 people in the United Kingdom lack proper food, Forced to do something, an embarrassed government ducks the malnutrition issue, encourages a campaign for physical fitness, but, champion of the underprivileged he Arch- bishop of York warns that lack of food and ot lack of =xercise is the fundamental probiem. _ Volu..e HI a & 4.4 7 # ee ee ey puzzling to both liberals and conservatives. Those w agree with the President believe that the path of New legislation can be cleared only by circumventing the die-hafc conservatives among the balance of the Supreme Courf: nine old members. 1937 may see the outcome of the struggle either by p sage of the Roosevelt proposal, by compromise or by who sale resignation. But whatever happens, the political hist of the U. 5. will feel its effects for years to come. In this episode—Newsworthy People President Franklin Delane Roosevelt Senator Robert F, Wagner of New York Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes Senator Burton E. Wheel Associate Justices: George Sutherland of Mon Pieres Butler Senator Bennett Champ Clark Willis Van Devanter Senator Carter Glass of Virgini James Clark McReynolds Owen Joseephas Roberts afermey -Gorral ings Benjamin Nathan Cardoza Solicitor-General Stanley Reed Harlan F tone J. Warren Madden, Chairman of Loatsa Dembits Brandeis Natienal Labor Relations Board —Newsworthy Places Senate PostoMice President's office moulage, ballistics, fingerprint identification and other sei: ences of crime. Volunteering their services to the police without charge, they have assisted in the solving of mor. thap 300 cases, have won the commendation of Chit G-Man John Edgar Hoover Honoring them, the University of Pennsylanvia’s famed criminologist, Professor Thorston Sellin says: “I hope thal _other communities will find within their borders trained professional men willing to give their services in the same manner and for the same cause that you have. If they do crime will become much more dificult.” In this episode—Newsworthy People oe Chief G-Man John Edgar Hoovereas Professor Thorston Sellin, Individual members of the New Jersey Crime Detection Laboratery Rf - BL -/7 The War Ministry decides to take immediate and practical action. Lt announces that henceforth every enlisted Britisher will get not three square meals a day, but four. Applicants too underfed to pass entrance tests may go to special recon- ditioning camps where, with body-building food for a basis, a program of physical training can build a fit and vigorous group of men, on which, in peace or in war, the future well- being of the Empire can depend. University of Pennsylyania’s famed minalogtis: ~ In this episode—Newsworthy People Sir Alfred Duff Cooper, Julian Hexky, famed biologist, Minister ef Defense Secretary ef London's Zoological Boclety Sir Kin Woed Archbishep of York, High Primate Minlster of Heal "of the Church of England —Newswor Places Decks and wharfse 1eden ; : we + | +