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Birthdays. Louis Dembitz Brandeis, 77; Samuel Insull, 74; King Victor Emmanuel of Italy, 64; Marie Dressier...
...Frankfurters pointed with pride to the way he sent his pupils home to wrangle for weeks over one of his neat, sharp questions. Put in an abrupt, jerky voice, they were usually questions of broad social significance. Public-minded, unselfish, a disciple of Liberals Oliver Wendell Holmes and Louis Dembitz Brandeis, Felix Frankfurter has turned down a seat on the Massachusetts Supreme Court and partnerships in firms worth $200,000 a year. Now 50, a man with a perpetually crisp, alert expression, and a charming wife, he will take a leave of absence next year...
Bostonians know Judge Lowell, whose mother was an Emerson, as the jurist who wears flashy cravats and lurid waistcoats, waves to friends from the bench, potters about with flowers. They like to bracket him as a legal libertarian with those other two Massachusetts justices, Oliver Wendell Holmes and Louis Dembitz Brandeis. In 1930 Judge Lowell suffered a paralytic stroke that affected his walk. Last year when a Prohibition case based on wiretapping was before him, he effected an acquittal by addressing the jury thus: "We love to think of Uncle Sam as a thoroughly upright man. . . . Let us look...
...widely publicized as an infant prodigy. He wore knickerbockers about the Yard up to his senior year. Graduated with honors at 17, he took a master's degree. At 21 he received an LL.B. from Harvard Law School. He worked briefly in the office of Louis Dembitz Brandeis (now on the Supreme Court) and drank deeply of his philosophic outlook. After the War he practiced corporation law in downtown Manhattan with his brother Rudolf as well as teaching it. His Modern Corporation and Private Property (coauthor: Gardiner C. Means) is an economic bible of the Roosevelt Administration...
Entering the Senate in 1913 as a Helena attorney, "Tom" Walsh, grim of mien and gruff of manner, quickly developed as a great constitutional authority. He fought notably for the confirmation of Louis Dembitz Brandeis, first Jew on the Supreme Court. Organized Labor is still grateful to him for his efforts to exclude unions from the anti-trust laws He led the fight that ended only when Michigan's wealthy Truman Newberry resigned from the Senate seat he was accused of buying. His relentless investigation of the Teapot Dome and Elk Hills oil leases finally put Albert Bacon Fall...