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...Court's strongest minority, and, paradoxically for Mr. Roosevelt's conception that a Justice's conservatism varies directly with his years, the leadership of the Court's controlling sentiment falls to the Court's oldest member. After 21 years on the losing side, Louis Dembitz Brandeis (pronounced: Brand-ice), the Court's senior liberal, emerges at the political forefront of a body which as a superb legal technician he has distinguished for two decades with his deep scholarship and juridical goodwill...
...People's Lawyer." When Woodrow Wilson sent Louis Dembitz Brandeis' name to the Senate as a nominee for the Supreme Court in 1916, it caused an uproar over his confirmation which made last summer's disturbance over Hugo Black look like a pillow fight. The Senate's Judiciary Committee wrangled over the Brandeis nomination for four months. From six onetime presidents of the American Bar Association the Committee got a petition stating succinctly that he was "not a fit person to be a member of the Supreme Court." One of the bar association presidents who signed...
...limit on how far trees should sink their roots into the ground or how wide they should spread. If he has never before exerted the direct influence upon U. S. life that he may be expected to exert henceforth, a case could be made to prove that Louis Dembitz Brandeis has indirectly influenced the trend of U. S. political thought and action as much as the most influential of his colleagues...
Three grandchildren of Supreme Court Justice Louis Dembitz Brandeis-Louis (11), Alice (9), and Frank Gilbert (7) -started on Cape Cod a hectographed newspaper called Chatham Chatter. Price, 1?. Contents of the first issue: by Alice, a tribute to Amelia Earhart; by Frank, "The Slavery Question and How It Changed the United States"; by Grand-editor Louis, editorials. Excerpts: "The modern child grows up with guns surrounding him. Guns to the right of him, guns to the left of him, guns in front of him, volley and thunder. This is one of the main reasons of wars...
...Association, the names of six women, lawyers were posted on the bulletin board at No. 42 West 44th Street to be voted en. One was Lawyer Susan Brandeis (Mrs. Jacob H. Gilbert), whose pet dislike is to be referred to as the daughter of Supreme Court Justice Louis Dembitz Brandeis because she does not want to trade on her father's fame. Plump, fortyish. the mother of two boys and a girl, Mrs. Gilbert is a member of the New York State Board of Regents (educational overseers) and maintains a Manhattan law practice with her husband...