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...reply to Father Curran, Hicks said, "I welcome the opportunity to join with you in the exercise of this democratic function...
Designed, in the words of Dean John H. Williams, head of the school, as a "means to bring the University and the Public Service nearer together," the new center will fill a dual function as a training field for graduate students in the social sciences and as a research institution for men already doing government administrative work...
...their witness. Nevada's tawny old Pat McCarran was confounded by the Professor's Socratic questions. Asked by Senator Borah how the Civil Liberties Union stood on Communism, the Professor neatly replied, "So far as I know it has no attitude except to carry out its function of seeing that Communists get their Constitutional rights, along with Henry Ford, the Nazis and the Klan." Climax came when, pointing his finger at McCarran, Lawyer Frankfurter said slowly and succinctly...
This is the first and most important function of this conference. There will, however, be a broader field discussed. It is true that for the most part the men who are running this conference and who are to speak are ministers interested in recruiting, but they are the first to realize the necessity of having efficient and active laymen in the church. One of the most important steps toward this is to have the laymen know well what the ministers...
Harvard's Byrne Professor of Administrative Law believes above all else that the independent Government boards and agencies that have taken over much of the lawmaker's function should be no more arbitrary than other lawmakers. If Fighter Frankfurter's enthusiasm for drawing this line inconveniences red hot New Dealers, at 56 Felix Frankfurter may still be in a bitter fight after he joins the Supreme Court...