Word: dembitz
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Actually the turnout was a compliment not only to Poets Cummings and Auden, but to year-old Brandeis (named for the late great Justice Louis Dembitz Brandeis) as well. Each week, people had been coming from Harvard and Wellesley, from Boston and other nearby towns, to attend Brandeis' new Institute of Adult Education. For so new a university, ambitious little Brandeis was attracting more than its share of attention...
Left. By the late Louis Dembitz Brandeis, retired Supreme Court Justice: $3,178,495, most of it in bonds. His will, one of the most complicated ever filed in Washington, gave his widow a trust fund of about $400,000, each of his two daughters trusts of about $200,000. Among other bequests, gifts aggregating $1,000,000 to: University of Louisville; Survey Associates, Inc. "for the maintenance of civil liberty and . . . workers' education"; to the Palestine Endowment, and Hadassah-the last two for the development of Palestine as a national home for the Jews...
William Howard Taft had been one of the seven former presidents of the American Bar Association (including Elihu Root) who had signed a petition in 1916 to the Senate Judiciary Committee declaring that Louis Dembitz Brandeis was unfit to serve as an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court...
Uncle Lewis Dembitz helped nominate Lincoln at Chicago in 1860. With his mother, young Louis, age 5, bustled about -when the fighting came near-carrying baskets of food and coffee to Union soldiers. On the day of the Battle of Bull Run he got a licking in school. But in school he got marks of 6 (perfection) in everything but penmanship (only 5). At Harvard Law School, he broke the school record with an average mark of 87. But President Eliot of Harvard grumbled at letting him graduate: he was five months short of 21 years old. On Commencement morning...
Died. Louis Dembitz Brandeis, 84, retired Associate Justice of the Supreme Court; of a heart attack; in Washington...