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...know how it will end," Benjamin Nathan Cardozo wrote in 1933. "I know that it has been an interesting time to live in, an interesting time in which to do my little share in translating into law the social and economic forces that clamor for expression." Having lived his time and done his share, as member and Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals and as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, he died last week at 68, of a diseased heart...
...Cardozos, a family of Sephardic Jews moved from London to New York city in 1752, founded there a line of merchants and lawyers. Their Benjamin was the second Jew appointed to the U. S. Supreme Court. (The first: Louis Dembitz Brandeis, at 81 the oldest Justice, who is reported thinking of retirement.) Unmarried, Benjamin Cardozo was much alone after the death in 1929 of his devoted and retiring sister, Nellie. Last December his heart forced him to leave the bench. Last April he went to the home of State Supreme Court Judge Irving Lehman (brother of New York...
...Died. Benjamin Nathan Cardozo, 68, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States; of coronary thrombosis; at Port Chester...
...Goncourt Academy died, and the remaining nine, most of them well above 70, disagreed about his successor. Candidates included Humorist Tristan Bernard, Novelists Colette and Jules Romains. But for 23 years Leon Daudet has been beating the drum for his fellow Royalist, dramatist and novelist, gushy Rene Benjamin. Little known in the U. S., where few of his books have been translated, Benjamin is known in France as a winner of a Goncourt Prize himself, as General Franco's most lyric supporter. Interviewing Franco last year, Benjamin called the general beautiful, lovely, ravishing, mysterious, tender and pure...
Last week Léon Daudet got his way, made Author Benjamin the tenth member of the Goncourt Academy. To French observers his election meant that the Academy, originally politically independent, had at last become as reactionary as Author Daudet has been trying to make...