Word: cardozos
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...Confirmed Benjamin Nathan Cardozo of New York to be an Associate Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court and James Henderson Douglas Jr. of Chicago to be an Assistant Secretary of the Treasury...
Last week President Hoover appointed Chief Judge Benjamin Nathan Cardozo of New York's Court of Appeals to fill the Supreme Court vacancy made by the retirement of Associate Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes (TIME, Jan. 25). Senatorial Insurgents, Republicans and Demo-crats alike, unanimously applauded the choice. In making the appointment, which only a miracle could prevent the Senate from confirming, the President disregarded party and geographical distinctions. Judge Cardozo is a Democrat, although he has the support of both parties in his State, and will be the third New York member of the nation's highest tribunal...
Brightest gem in his State's judicial crown, Judge Cardozo, a thin-nosed patrician descendant of Sephardic Jews, may be expected to bolster up the Court's fine Liberal-Conservative balance, which was jeopardized by Liberal Justice Holmes's retirement...
Ever since he was graduated from Columbia Law School 42 years ago, aged 19, Judge Cardozo has been an advocate of fluidity in the law. In 1914, month after he was elected to the State Supreme Court, he was appointed to the Court of Appeals. He has been there ever since. And although his father was one of the judicial triumvirate behind New York City's William M. ("Boss") Tweed, Judge Cardozo has kept his office aloof from politics...
President Henry U. Sims of the American Bar Association estimated the judicial worth of Judge Cardozo, on his 60th birthday, thus: "Probably no one has contributed so much as Chief Judge Cardozo, unless it be Dean Roscoe Pound, toward clarifying for the legal world the function of the judge in shaping and developing...