Word: court
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After the court recessed last June, Wiley Rutledge took his family to Maine for a vacation. There he learned of the death of his close colleague, Frank Murphy (TIME, Aug. 1). And there, last week, in a tiny hospital at York Village where he had lain for eight days in a periodic coma, Wiley Blount Rutledge, 55, died of cerebral hemorrhage...
Wiley Rutledge had been sitting on the U.S. Court of Appeals for nearly four years when he was summoned one day to the White House. "Wiley," said President Roosevelt, "we had a number of candidates for the court who were highly qualified but they didn't have geography-you have that...
...made one reputation as a scholarly law-school dean before he came to Washington, made another on the bench there as an able, hard-working judge. So on Feb. 15, 1943, hearty, dignified Wiley Rutledge became Franklin Roosevelt's eighth and final appointee to the Supreme Court...
...Human Needs. Lacking the brittle eloquence and flashiness of some of his colleagues, Rutledge became at once a steady, self-effacing addition to the bright young court, and one of its most fervent champions of civil liberties and economic liberalism. "Of what good is the law," he liked to say, "if it does not serve human needs...
...political appointment so soon. If his anxiety outweighed his friendship for loyal Democrat McGrath, ex-chairman of the Democratic National Committee, the most likely possibilities for Rutledge's seat seemed to be Wyoming's Senator Joseph C. O'Mahoney, Justice Harold M. Stephens of the U.S. Court of Appeals, Connecticut Senator Brien McMahon, or former Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson...