Word: dembitz
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Learning that U. S. Supreme Court Justice Louis Dembitz Brandeis had invested $48,000 in City of Pittsburgh bonds, Pittsburgh's ebullient Mayor William Nissley McNair announced he would offer to settle with Bondholder Brandeis for $24,000. Crowed the Mayor: "Justice Brandeis wrote the decision which permits a person to pay off his debts at 50% of face value, didn...
...hard reactionary Justice, but famed Liberal Louis Dembitz Brandeis read the opinion. Prime point: in depriving a creditor of his just property the Act clearly violated the Constitution's "due process of law" clause. Brushing aside social considerations, Justice Brandeis declared...
Last week Associate Justice Louis Dembitz Brandeis, whom President Wilson also placed upon the bench in 1916, unceremoniously celebrated his 78th birthday. Though the oldest member of the court, his health is still good, his step quick, his mind vital. As the best anti-corporation lawyer of Wilson's day, Brandeis was for Labor, for Reform, for Social Improvement in a passionate way. He still is. Yet he is unconvinced of the divine nature of any man and accepts President Roosevelt's New Deal with certain reservations which his friends are sure will make startling news this winter...
...House to notify the President that the watchdogs of the Constitution were back on guard. With mingled feelings of respect and speculation President Roosevelt ran his eye over them. Were they for him or against him? Would one or more retire soon? Even the eldest, 77-year-old Louis Dembitz Brandeis, seemed in the best of health and spirits...
General Johnson's uneasy exit from the NRA as the one-man power has overshadowed the revelation Saturday that Lewis Dembitz Brandeis, Justice of the Supreme Court, has been one of his advisors. As Frank Kent points out, those who have been looking for the mind which has shaped important measures feel that they have found their answer. For Mr. Justice Brandeis, formerly a showed Boston lawyer, has at least offered advice to the Administration and may have played a leading role...