Word: clerke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...make amends for Auschwitz and Buchenwald by helping Israel protect itself against Egyptian plots and plans. After training in cryptography and other techniques in an Israeli-operated spy school in Paris, Hüttenmeister flew to Cairo with instructions to pick up a capsule of microfilm from a Sudanese clerk named Ismail Sabri and smuggle it out of Egypt. The neophyte spy had no sooner taken the film than he was arrested by Egyptian security agents...
When Mr. Justice Holmes ascended from the Massachusetts Supreme Court to the U.S. Supreme Court in 1902, he brought along his custom of each year picking a bright young clerk from Harvard Law School. Himself childless, he explained that his clerks gave him the fun of fatherhood without the pain, since his "sons" changed every year. Holmes's legal family became so popular that it soon grew into a sort of Rhodes scholarship of U.S. law. Clerking for the Supreme Court is now a launching pad for all kinds of later fame -be it heading the State Department (Dean...
Picking Patterns. By federal statute, the eight Associate Justices are now each entitled to two clerks, and the Chief Justice to three. At $8,745, the pay is equal to the starting salary at top law firms, and there is an added $ 1,000 for the chief clerk, who serves the Chief Justice. Most law clerks, but not all, are fresh out of law school-the brightest in their class, the editors of the law review. Geographical preference and a loyalty to certain schools are the only patterns of prejudice that are known to attract the Justices...
...Penn's Stephen Goldstein, 26 (Justice Goldberg), is the son of a Philadelphia postal clerk, won a mayor's scholarship to college and earned a Phi Bete key. First in his class at the law school ('62), Goldstein matched the school's highest average in 30 years but failed to get a Supreme Court clerkship on graduation. Grabbed by a prestigious Philadelphia law firm, he later got a second chance to clerk and accepted because "I couldn't afford...
...Some clerks have extralegal duties as well. The late Justice Stone had his clerks accompany him on walks, and Justice Black until recently was suspected of picking clerks for their tennis skill. But real influence? On a Supreme Court Justice? Snaps Mr. Justice Brennan: "Judging is not delegated." Adds one ex-Warren clerk: "The Justices can't even change one another's opinion, and if they can't do that, no law clerk is going to change their minds...