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...Glenn Frank (University of Wisconsin president), Daniel Willard (Baltimore & Ohio R. R. president), James Branch Cabell (author of Jurgen, The Cream of the Jest, etc.), Capt. William H. Stay ton (Association Against the Prohibition Amendment founder and president), Justice Louis Dembitz Brandeis (U. S. Supreme Court) and Dr. James McKeen Cattell (Editor of Science) were bracketed and equally recommended, as "six highly intelligent and industrious men . . . gentlemen," by Editor Henry Louis Mencken of the American Mercury, for President...
...refuse to work on stone cut by these corporations. Last week the Supreme Court reversed the decision of a lower court; ruled that the union was restraining trade in violation of the anti-trust laws, that the stone corporations were entitled to relief by injunction. Associate Justices Louis Dembitz Brandeis and Oliver Wendell Holmes, the two great liberals of the Supreme Court, dissented vigorously from this decision. Said Justice Brandeis: "They [the union members] were innocent alike of trespass and of breach of contract. They refrained from violence, intimidation, fraud and threats." Old but Able. Before the Supreme Court last...
...while radicals flung bombs at many a U. S. embassy, while liberals such as Anatole France, Romain Rolland, Henri Barbusse, Fritz Kreisler, Albert Einstein protested against the injustice being done to the fish peddler and the shoemaker. . . . Mr. Sacco went on a month's hunger strike. . . . Mrs. Louis Dembitz Brandeis, wife of the U. S. Supreme Court Justice, turned over her Dedham home to Mrs. Sacco so that she could be near her husband and cook for him while he was in the Dedham (Mass.) jail. Last week in a Dedham courtroom, there was a scene, wherein seven years...
...hang by a hair. Such was the situation last week when the court of last resort upheld the provision of the Volstead Act which limits the amount of whiskey that physicians may prescribe to one pint every ten days. Paradoxically enough, this decision was written by Justice Louis Dembitz Brandeis, who often dissents from decisions restricting individual "liberty...
Swift & Co., meat packers, had successfully contended that the Commission was without authority to require them to give up the property of two competitors in Alabama and Georgia, which they had acquired by stock purchases. The Supreme Court decision was not unanimous; Justices Oliver Wendell Holmes, Louis Dembitz Brandeis, Harlan Fiske Stone dissented. The Thatcher Manufacturing Co. of Philadelphia won its suit involved in the same decision, though the Western Meat Co. of California lost...