Word: benjamin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Appomattox Day, April 9, 1890, when Benjamin Harrison was the seventh Republican President of the U. S., two young Chicago lawyers named Robert McMurdy and Lester Coffeen opened a Republican social club in a three-story white stone house facing Lake Michigan. Last week to old Lawyer McMurdy, 77, and many another stanch Republican member came the news that the Hamilton Club, for four decades one of the most famous political fraternities in the U. S., was about to close its doors...
During the second period of Stockton's struggle to the sea, another inland city, Houston, was also dredging itself an ocean port. Directing this development was a young Chicagoan, Benjamin Casey ("Benjy") Allin, who until the War's end was a captain of engineers. At Houston, Engineer Allin found 50 miles from the Gulf of Mexico a ghost port over whose wharves but a few hundred thousand tons of freight passed each year. After twelve years of Benjy Allin's management, Houston, with 16,000,000 tons of shipping in 1935, was fourth ocean port...
...Well did Benjamin Allin know that it takes more than sound engineering, machinery and strong backs to build a port. The trick is to operate one. By 1933, Stockton, with saw-toothed docks and sidings, swift, economical loading machinery and smooth management, was ready for business. Behind was a rich agricultural hinterland, ahead was the whole world to ship to and buy things from. And most of it could be handled a dollar a ton cheaper than by using the next nearest port, established and powerful San Francisco. Though Stockton's tonnage increased each year they had scarcely passed...
When Justice Benjamin Nathan Cardozo replaced Justice Holmes in 1932, the change did nothing to alter the Court's balance and it was a minority again which defended Florida's right to impose a system of graduated taxes on chain stores. Brandeis' opinion, in this case too, was the statement of a fundamental tenet. "There is a widespread belief that . . . only by releasing from corporate control the faculties of the unknown many . . . can confidence in our future be restored. ... If the citizens of Florida share that belief, I know of nothing in the Federal Constitution which precludes...
...onetime dean of Columbia University Law School and Attorney General under Calvin Coolidge, once reportedly slated (by President Hoover) for the Chief Justiceship that Charles Evans Hughes surprisingly accepted in 1930, was raised to the bench in 1925. His liberalism, mostly acquired thereafter, contains more tolerance than militancy. Humanitarian Benjamin Nathan Cardozo's liberalism comes from the heart...