Word: dembitz
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...conscience stricken by the violent Denver tramway strike of 1920, undertook to finance a Foundation for the Advancement of Social Sciences at the University of Denver, he picked Ben Cherrington from a YMCA student job to direct it. Director Cherrington began by asking 150 serious thinkers, including Louis Dembitz Brandeis, Mohandas K. Gandhi, Jan Smuts, Harvard Law Dean Roscoe Pound, Ramsay MacDonald, Herbert Hoover: "What would you do?" Consensus was to tackle international problems, and Dr. Cherrington did, with endless lectures, seminars, model League of Nations assemblies, dinners and luncheons which after twelve years make visiting foreigners wonder why landlocked...
...Cardozos, a family of Sephardic Jews moved from London to New York city in 1752, founded there a line of merchants and lawyers. Their Benjamin was the second Jew appointed to the U. S. Supreme Court. (The first: Louis Dembitz Brandeis, at 81 the oldest Justice, who is reported thinking of retirement.) Unmarried, Benjamin Cardozo was much alone after the death in 1929 of his devoted and retiring sister, Nellie. Last December his heart forced him to leave the bench. Last April he went to the home of State Supreme Court Judge Irving Lehman (brother of New York...
...America" is Manhattan's Rabbi Stephen Samuel Wise. Since 1924 he has been alternately president and honorary president of the American Jewish Congress which he. Supreme Court Justice Louis Dembitz Brandeis. Felix Frankfurter and others founded in 1917, to represent Jews "as a group and not solely as individuals." The Congress is ardently Zionist, zealous in promoting the anti-German boycott and getting up mass protests against Hitler. Last week, Rabbi Wise's deep cello voice was throbbing, his Mosaic profile bobbing, as he stumped in favor of a referendum for a united front for U. S. Jewry...
...chief accomplishment of Louis Dembitz Brandeis before his appointment to the U. S. Supreme Court was to get the Massachusetts Legislature to pass a law allowing savings banks to issue life insurance. That was in 1907. Despite the tight-lipped opposition of all the old-line insurance companies, the plan was a thoroughpaced success. There are now 24 Massachusetts savings banks with life insurance departments, 117 more that act as agents. Massachusetts citizens can insure their lives for anything between $100 and $24,000. At the end of 1937 some 160,000 Massachusetts citizens or onetime Massachusetts citizens had policies...
...President Roosevelt's opportunity to make his second appointment to the Supreme Court came in January when he received a letter announcing retirement of Justice (1 Sam G. Bratton, 2 Louis Dembitz Brandeis, 3 Harlan F. Stone, 4 Pierce Butler, 5 George Sutherland...