Word: cardozos
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...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...
...decision was this but 5-2-1-1. Justice Sutherland read a minority opinion in which he and Justice Van Devanter agreed with what Mr. Cardozo had said except that they held that the law, in requiring the States to deposit their unemployment tax collections in the U. S. Treasury, went too far-invaded States' rights by placing States' money under the Federal thumb. Justice Butler delivered his own dissent declaring...
Having thus disposed of the unemployment insurance law, Justice Cardozo went on to the old-age annuity section. This was an appeal by the Government from a lower court decision in favor of Stockholder George P. Davis who sued Edison Electric Illuminating Co. of Boston to restrain it from paying old age pension taxes on its payrolls. This time Justice Cardozo carried seven members of the court with him in approving the law, leaving Justices Butler and McReynolds to dissent. Finally Justice Stone read a decision upholding (5 to 4) Alabama's unemployment insurance law passed to conform...
...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...