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FOURTEEN MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Thursday, May 1. 1992 FDR's Counter-Blow iTheGrange Against High Court Once Rocked Nation By LYLE C. WILSON Washington (UP.) The last previous time federal courts threw a bone - shaking block against a United States president, the man in the White House countered with a blow that shook the nation. The man was FDR. The block was midway in his first term. The counter blow was the so called court packing bill a project by which Mr. Roosevelt asked Congress to let him ap point additional Supreme Court justices. Disput Rocks Country The dispute which greeted that proposition rocked the coun try. It split the Democratic Party wide open. In 1935, the Supreme Court began junking FDR's New Deal legislation on grounds it was unconstitutional. The Na tional Industrial Recovery Act, Railroad Retirement Act, Guffey coal bill, the Agricultural Ad justment Act were among the dead pigeons. Safely elected in 19.16, FDR countered on Feb. 5, 1937 with his plan to reform the Supreme Court. Six months later he lost that battle when the Senate scuttled the bill In angry protest. But Mr. Roosevelt won the war. Death and resignations openend Supreme Court vacan cies and enabled him to put his own men on the bench. These men agreed in general with FDR's theory of a "flexible" Con stitution, one which would stretch and bend under an ag gressive president's emergency pressure. FDR based his belief in flexi bility on the related theory of "inherent powers" within the Constitution which gave the president or Congress extraor dinary authority to take extra ordinary emergency action. FDR did not invent the idea of a flexi ble Constitution containing non flexible but inherent executive powers. Theodore Roosevelt, for one, had the idea ahead of him. But none ever had it more firmly in mind than Mr. Roosevelt barring, perhaps President Truman. FDR stated his Flexible Con stitution idea in his inaugural address, March 4, 1933, and oft en thereafter, even when the old Supreme Court struck it down. The new Supreme Court raised it up again for him. Now, 15 years afler that great 1937 con stitutional debate on court re form, a federal court has struck Roxy Ann Granga Roxy Ann Grange will hold its regular meeting Friday, May 2. All Grange ladies who have their aprons made are to bring them for display. The mothers are to be honored at this meeting as the men are to do the entertaining and serve refreshments. Grangers are reminded that there is to be a square dance Saturday, May 3. Eagla Point Granga The third and fourth 'degree team of Eagle Point Grange will go to Central Point on May 2 to put on the degree work for can dadates being initiated there. There will be a square dance at Eagle Point Grange hall Sat urday, May 3, at 8:30 p.m. Gary Conrad of Medford will be the caller featured. Ladies are to bring sandwiches. At the regular Grange meet ing Tuesday, May 8, at 8 p.m., candidates for county offices will be introduced at an open lecturer's hour. Public is invited to meet these men at this time. down once more the New Deal Fair Deal theory of a flexible Constitution with basic inherent emergency powers. Did Mr. Tru man have "inherent" power to seize the steel companies? This time the Supreme Court must pass on a question which more than any before it pin points the great and still un decided constitutional debate. What are you doing ... FRIDAY EVENING, MAY 2 Come to the LINCOLN SCHOOL FRIDAY MAY 2-7:30 P.M. AT THE 1 i a l Lincoln uraae dcnooi Jfcfc ANU HtAK I tit FASCINATING FACTS ABOUT "FROZEN FOODS and YOU!" 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