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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...
...passionately loyal to the thinking of an era now as dead as its fringed surreys, gas lamps and stereopticons; an old man whose many hates included tobacco and Jews (tobacco smoke sent him into tantrums; he alone refused to sign a farewell testimonial from the Court to Justice Louis Dembitz Brandeis; when Hoover appointed Benjamin Cardozo he reputedly roared: "What! Another Jew?" and ostentatiously rattled a newspaper while Cardozo was being sworn...
Birthday. Louis Dembitz Brandeis, liberal, dissenting Justice of the Supreme Court from 1916 to 1939; in Washington retirement; his 84th...