Word: dembitz
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...liberal cast of thought." Willis Van Devanter, 67, of Wyoming-"a student not impractical, a scholar not pedantic." James Clark McReynolds, 64, of Tennessee, a bachelor with few pleasures aside from work-"one of the most detached, most solitary, least wordly men now in public life." Louis Dembitz Brandeis, 70, of Massachusetts, the only Jew who ever sat in the Supreme Court- "in his decisions the rights of property are likely to be subordinated to the rights of man." George Sutherland, 64, of Utah- "the greatest Constitutional lawyer in the Senate."-William Howard Taft. Pierce Butler, 60, of Minnesota, described...
Besides this innovation there was another at the opening session. For the first time in history a daughter of one of the Justices appeared before the Court to argue a case. She was Miss Susan Brandeis* daughter of Louis Dembitz Brandeis, member of an old Kentucky family, the only Jew who has ever been a member of the Court. Justice Brandeis has been called a radical. He is an admitted liberal, a Justice in whose decisions the rights of property are likely to be subordinated to the rights of man. Yet he is a stickler for the formalities...