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country, very time-consuming.” He stressed greatly this terrible delay in the courts, which I hadn't heard about too much. Of course, there was delay. You were always hearing about that, but I hadn't realized it as a burning issue.

However, he went into that more than into any other aspect - the delay in the courts. Something had to be done to solve that. “The courts have such extra-ordinary powers and such a wide range of responsibility that we also need to be sure that we have in the courts a great selection of judges, men who have come out of a great variety of walks of life, have direct knowledge of some of the complicated matters that now come before the courts.” He went on in that line, which all sounded very interesting.

“So,” he said, “Homer has been working on this for a long time. Homer thinks that we ought to increase the number of members, not only on the Supreme Court, but in the Federal courts. You tell them about it, Homer.”

It was sort of a surprise. Then Homer went into it. As I remember that day, Homer, even that day, did not give a clear, concise, specific relation of what he was recommending, even though he had papers in his





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