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Businessmen knew it, Congress knew it, the Brain Trust knew it, Mr. Homer Stille Cummings knew it: The Justices of the Supreme Court would do their duty as they saw it. Yet somehow nearly everyone had overlooked the obvious fact that the nine potent, grave and reverend judges would first...
In upholding the cancellation of the gold clauses the sleek attorneys of the railroads joined with the Government. The Government's lawyerlike brief was signed by two of its bright young men, Paul A. Freund, onetime secretary to Mr. Justice Brandeis, and John G. Laylin, assistant to General Counsel...
Attorney General Cummings listened to these opening arguments, placidly chewing gum, tobacco, paper or whatnot. After Frederick H. Wood, in sonorous periods, had launched B. & O.'s counterattack, Mr. Cummings took the stand. He argued little about the law, less about economics, a great deal about horrendous social consequences...
Questions. A tradition of the Supreme Court is that the Attorney General shall not be interrupted in his argument by questions from the bench. Therefore the real excitement did not begin until Mr. Cummings had finished his stump speech. Then the Justices who had asked only a few questions of...
¶ Attorney General Cummings, fearful that the case was going against him, made an unscheduled second argument in which he praised abrogation of the gold clauses as a piece of great and well-considered statesmanship, but offered no new arguments to show that the Government's action was legal...