Washington, July 1 The Senate Judiciary ' Committee yesterday unanimously approved the nomination of Mir. Robert H. Jackson, former United States Attorney General as a member of the Supreme Court.
The committee over-ruled the protest of Senator Millard E. Tydings. Democrat of Maryland. that Mr. Jackson was "unfitted by character. philosophy and judicial temperament" forthe post. Senator Tydings charge was-based on the'acéusation that Mr. Jackson failed to prosecute the columnists Mr. Drew Pearson and Mr. Robert S. Allen. authors of the "Washington-Merry-Go-Round" for alleged criminal libel against Senator Tydings in a radio broadcast.
Senator Tydings said they committed libel against him by asserting that he used labour of the Works Progress Administration to build a road to the yacht basin on his private Maryland estate—United Press Roosevelt Reiterates Faith in Democracy
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