Word: benching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Shortly after noon at the White House Franklin Roosevelt had received a two-line note. "Dear Mr. President: Pursuant to the act of March 1, 1937, I retire this day from regular active service on the bench. Cordially, Louis Dembitz Brandeis...
...quietly, departed from the Court the man whose appointment to it by Woodrow Wilson in 1916 shocked every then living ex-president of the American Bar Association including William Howard Taft; raised a storm in Senate and press that echoed long after he took his seat on the bench. Mr. Taft later apologized to Mr. Brandeis for doing him a "grave injustice." But many of his contemporaries lived and died in the belief that Louis Brandeis, the "People's Lawyer" of Boston where he practiced for 37 years, the courtroom David against the industrial and financial Goliaths...
...York Neurological Society. Training in a liberal arts college only "imposes infantilism" on a prospective medical student. Such training does not teach students to think scientifically for "the collection of credits in courses of oddments" can be gained by "agglutination of the tail to a wooden bench...
...through the Massachusetts legislature while his enemies branded him a dangerous radical. Although his dislike of the "red menace" doctrine during the war impaired his chances of appointment to the Supreme Court, he nevertheless courageously regarded the drive as a menace to civil liberties. And once on the high bench, there never was any question of his compromising with what was hostile to his liberal tenets. Rarely did Louis Brandeis agree with his conservative colleagues; because of his celebrated minority opinions, vritten in league with his great contemporary Justice Holmes, the phrase "Holmes and Brandeis dissenting" has become famous...
...influence was no longer necessary that prompted his resignation; perhaps "the crusader" will fight for the cause of democracy in other fields. Harvard men, justly proud of his accomplishments, can only hope that a desire to use his talents where they were more needed dictated his retirement from the bench. For, at a time when democracy looks to defend itself from the onslaughts of bigotry and intolerance, the complete loss of the keen mind and tremendous ability of Louis Brandeis would be irreparable...