Word: cardozos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Judges Cardozo...
...Seabury of the Legislature's committee, lord high inquisitor into New York City officialdom. Second there was a grey, little old horse doctor named William Francis Doyle, the culprit of the moment, the witness through whom the Reformer hoped to get at the Ring. Third there was Judge Benjamin Cardozo, personifying...
Judge. Tammany's effort to protect its own now looked hopeless indeed. A last appeal for Dr. Doyle was made to Chief Judge Cardozo. For all practical purposes Judge Cardozo is as far from Tammany's reach as is Chief Justice Hughes from Scarface Al Capone's. Scholarly, liberal, a creative as well as an interpretative force upon the bench, he is always one of the first jurists mentioned when a vacancy occurs in the Supreme Court of the U. S. When the question of Horse Doctor Doyle's immunity came to him in the homely old study...
...fine distinction in the high court's decision, which Judge Cardozo wrote, rested on two points: 1) The law of New York allows immunity to be granted to an actual briber, so that the State may discover and punish the public servant bribed; 2) In the case of a person who has only conspired to bribe or otherwise break the law, the State of New York does not compel him to testify against himself; without specially enacted authority, no judge or legislative committee can relieve him of the risk of prosecution...
Eminent U. S. Sephardim include the late Emma Lazarus (poetess), Dr. Solomon Solis Cohen (physician, teacher), Ernest Clifford Peixotto (artist, writer), Jessica Blanche Peixotto (his sister, social economist), Benjamin Nathan Cardozo (jurist...