Successor, Mr. Reed, in Court As Ruling Is Read Washington, Jan. 17.
Mr. Justice George Sutherland, whose recent retirement from the Supreme Court gave President Roosevelt the opportunity to gain a clear majority in the tribunal delivered what was believed to be his last opinion to-day, upholding the Government in a minor tax case, Mr. Stanley Reed, former Solicitor General of the United States, who argued the New Deal side of many cases before the Supreme Court and who was appointed by Mr. Roosevelt to succeed Mr. Justice Sutherland, was in the Chamber as Mr. Justice Sutherland delivered his opinion.—United Press.
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