Word: butlerism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pierce Butler's most-criticized decision was one he wrote in the Indianapolis Water Co. case, which established the practice of using "reproduction cost new" of a plant as the basis for valuation in cases where high rates were attacked. Too, Pierce Butler was with the conservative majority which held that the New York State minimum-wage law for women was unconstitutional...
...Pierce Butler was a poor boy, born near Northfield, Minn., on March 17, 1866, but he had no Lincolnian tenderness for those in humble circumstances. His own bitter struggle to the top only taught him that those who were successful need not be held responsible for those who failed...
Wrestling milk-cans on cold Minnesota mornings while his college classmates slept snugly, "Fierce" Butler thrust his way painfully on & up, became by the century's turn a crack railroad lawyer in the days when railroads were among the biggest U. S. corporations. To Wall Street, to conservatives, to Catholics he was a big name in 1922, when President Harding appointed him to the highest Court...
Little wonder was it when Franklin Roosevelt came to Washington with his New Deal that Pierce Butler was regarded as head hatchet-man for the conservatives. The score-sheet bore out this feeling: On the 14 major New Deal Cases, Pierce Butler voted 13 times against, once...
...Deal days, Justice Holmes, reading an 8-to-1 decision holding constitutional a Virginia law requiring sterilization of third-generation defectives, dryly noted, "Three generations of imbeciles are enough. Justice Butler dissents...