Word: cardozos
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...There is no man in the public eye who so fully and truly represents the philosophy of government of Justice Holmes and his successor, Justice Cardozo, as does Frankfurter," Norris said...
...Senator Norris of Nebraska: "Felix Frankfurter is the most outstanding personality to continue and carry out the judicial philosophy of these great statesmen [the late Associate Justices Holmes and Cardozo]. The common people of America have faith in President Roosevelt. He will perpetuate that faith if he places Mr. Frankfurter on the Supreme bench...
That a majority of the Court at last accepted this view was due in good measure to Justice Cardozo. His studied, richly phrased opinions did much to broaden the interpretation of the Constitution so that Congress now may legislate within vastly widened bounds for what it considers the general good. With the balance of the Court now strongly "liberal," Franklin Roosevelt will lose no advantage in Cardozo's passing, save that to replace him adequately, the President must find not only another "liberal" but a "judicial evolutionist" of rare distinction...
...Cardozos, a family of Sephardic Jews moved from London to New York city in 1752, founded there a line of merchants and lawyers. Their Benjamin was the second Jew appointed to the U. S. Supreme Court. (The first: Louis Dembitz Brandeis, at 81 the oldest Justice, who is reported thinking of retirement.) Unmarried, Benjamin Cardozo was much alone after the death in 1929 of his devoted and retiring sister, Nellie. Last December his heart forced him to leave the bench. Last April he went to the home of State Supreme Court Judge Irving Lehman (brother of New York...
Died. Benjamin Nathan Cardozo, 68, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States; of coronary thrombosis; at Port Chester...