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...week in "Washington Daily Merry-Go-Round," the political column by Drew Pearson* & Robert S. Allen which is one of Janizary Corcoran's favorite wind tunnels for testing political balloons, a handsome tribute to Mr. Murphy and a serious discussion of his qualifications to succeed the late Justice Cardozo. Excerpts: "When Murphy was judge of the recorder's court he kept a little cardboard placard behind his desk where only he could see it. It read: If you must err, err on the side of leniency...
Most important business: Chief Justice Hughes pronounced an eulogy of their colleague, Benjamin Nathan Cardozo, who had died soon after last term's end. "In-expressibly saddened." was Chief Justice Hughes's sentiment for the whole Court. Next most important: 31 lawyers-all men-were formally admitted to practice before the Court...
Conjunctions of dreamy, intellectual Jews and effervescent Irishmen may have ocurred before but never more effectively than in Cohen & Corcoran. Their mutual admiration is boundless. Ben says: "If it hadn't been for Tom, I would never have been heard of." Tom thinks Ben ought to get Cardozo's place on the Supreme Court. They call themselves catalysts-agents who cause reactions to occur without themselves being altered. Despite the seeming change in Corcoran, into a politician with power for the moment as great as Jim Farley's, this remains essentially true. Ambition for high office does...
...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...