Word: cardozos
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Most exacting job in the Rio carnaval belongs to a reporter on the paper A Noite who looks like a Latin edition of Oliver Hardy. For four days each year Senhor San Francisco Cardozo Menezes is carnaval's gaudy, giddy King Momo. In those four days he is on the go from mid-morning to 5 a.m., out in the streets and at balls, drinking champagne by the Jeroboam, singing sambas and shedding some 20 of his 210 pounds...
...dead as its fringed surreys, gas lamps and stereopticons; an old man whose many hates included tobacco and Jews (tobacco smoke sent him into tantrums; he alone refused to sign a farewell testimonial from the Court to Justice Louis Dembitz Brandeis; when Hoover appointed Benjamin Cardozo he reputedly roared: "What! Another Jew?" and ostentatiously rattled a newspaper while Cardozo was being sworn...
...University of Detroit, made a good judge at the Recorder's Court in Detroit for seven years, lawyers deemed his legal training adequate, but pointed out that the appointment was not one of the great ones - like Theodore Roosevelt's selection of Holmes, Hoover's of Cardozo...
...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...