Word: cardozos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...letter to the new Law School Year Book, President Roosevelt hailed Felix Frankfurter, to whom the book was dedicated, as "the rightful successor of Justice Cardozo...
...many years he had refused to speak at all to Justice Louis Dembitz Brandeis. Reportedly he fought the appointment of saintly Benjamin Cardozo to the court; urged Hoover not "to afflict the Court with another...
...Justice Felix Frankfurter returned to Cambridge yesterday, and in keeping with a Harvard tradition set by Holmes, Brandeis, and Cardozo, former professor Frankfurter appointed Fretwell Prichard, Jr. a third year Law School student, as his secretary for next year...
...Friend Cardozo performed Felix Frankfurter's marriage ceremony in 1919. Friend Holmes told Massachusetts it would be lucky to get him on its Supreme Court. Friend Roosevelt's tribute last week was equally impressive. For up to the last moment pressure was strong on the President to make his third Supreme Court appointment count politically by giving it to the West (now represented only by Minnesotan Pierce Butler) and possibly to a Catholic. The President paid his respects to Catholics by naming Frank Murphy Attorney General. He succeeded in paying sufficient respect to the West by asking Nebraska...
Like Lawyers Holmes, Cardozo and Brandeis, Lawyer Frankfurter is a firm believer in judicial self-limitation. The most relevant qualifications for a Supreme Court appointee, he once wrote, "are his breadth of vision, his imagination, his capacity for disinterested judgment, his power to discover and suppress his prejudices...