Word: cardozos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...member and an exception to the procedure whereby new Justices serve an initial period before being called upon to speak for their colleagues. When Justice Black had finished, the Court proceeded to the rest of the day's business. By a 5-to-4 majority-Justices Brandeis, Stone, Cardozo, Black strenuously dis-senting-it held that a $10,000 gift made to an employe for "valuable and loyal service" in 1931 was not taxable as income. Among eleven other decisions handed down, the most important per se was a preliminary victory for the National Labor Relations Board...
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...
...Shoshones to sue the Government. From 1927 to 1933 he organized the case, presented it to the United States Court of Claims, which granted the Shoshones $2,500,000 in 1935. The Indians appealed to the Supreme Court, which upheld their right to ''just compensation." Said Justice Cardozo, "The power to control and manage properly the property and affairs of the Indians in good faith for their betterment and welfare does not extend so far as to enable the Government to give tribal lands to others...
...mouth. The Chief Justice fingers his snowy mustache. Conservative Justice McReynolds stares meditatively at the fine ceiling of the court room (not shown in the picture). Conservative Justice Sutherland lounges at one side of his chair. Liberal Justice Stone has his hand partly before his face. Liberal Justice Cardozo leans wearily upon one elbow...
...Chief Justice Hughes and Justice Brandeis allowed it to be announced that they had no present intention of retiring. A letter written by Justice McReynolds fortnight ago to a questioner saying, "You may disregard all rumors of my resignation," was also published. Since Justices Roberts, Stone and Cardozo are not yet 70, are therefore ineligible to retire with pay, the only other likely early retirers are Conservatives Sutherland and Butler...