Word: dembitz
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...many years he had refused to speak at all to Justice Louis Dembitz Brandeis. Reportedly he fought the appointment of saintly Benjamin Cardozo to the court; urged Hoover not "to afflict the Court with another...
These considerations guided Franklin Roosevelt's search for a successor to Louis Dembitz Brandeis, who retired from the Supreme Court in February. Demands that a Westerner be named this time restricted the choice. Suddenly it was remembered that William Orville Douglas, 40, chairman of SEC, was born in Minne sota, raised and schooled in Yakima and Walla Walla, Wash. A trial balloon for the Douglas appointment was released just before the President went war-gaming with the fleet (TIME, Feb. 27). This week, the President named Mr. Douglas to be the youngest Associate Justice since Joseph Story...
...Lumbering, loquacious Mr. Amlie conducted his self-defense before a Senate subcommittee with heavy, self-centred humor. He said he had always "hoped to make good in some big way," and now he had done so-"in the field of incompetency." Not since the appointment of Louis Dembitz Brandeis to the Supreme Court, said he, had there been such opposition as there...
Shortly after noon at the White House Franklin Roosevelt had received a two-line note. "Dear Mr. President: Pursuant to the act of March 1, 1937, I retire this day from regular active service on the bench. Cordially, Louis Dembitz Brandeis...
...scrap iron merchant. He broke all scholastic records at University of Chicago Law School (1915), took a postgraduate year at Harvard Law School and became secretary to U. S. Circuit Court Judge Julian Mack (receiverships). The War and the Jews' plight brought Cohen into contact with Louis Dembitz Brandeis. He is still a director of Palestine Economic Corp., wherein he first tasted planned economy. In the reckless 19205 he was not above playing the stockmarket. A killing Chrysler stock (he was so excited about it at the time that he used gleefully to point to every Chrysler...