Word: felix
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...been member of Ku Klux Klan. In the court Baptist Black was a novice in constitutional law, but studied incessantly, developed diamond-hard technical knowledge, has held the line for triple-distilled civil liberties and social interpretation of law. He often turns an angry purple at indefatigable Felix Frankfurter. Scholarly, quick-witted, he is immensely shy off-bench...
...Felix Frankfurter, 74, appointed by President Roosevelt in 1939. Vienna-born, came to the U.S. at twelve, worked his way from $4-a-week delivery boy's job into top of the law class at Harvard (1906), worked briefly as a junior in a Manhattan law firm, then for assorted Government agencies, returned to teach at Harvard in 1914. Even before Roosevelt's first term, Frankfurter exhorted students to seek public service, after 1932 Frankfurter students-"Happy Hot Dogs" -were spotted throughout federal agencies. F.D.R. finally pushed the Harvard chair away from the reluctant, pince-nezed little...
...history's sharpest justifications of far-ranging congressional investigations were penned during the years when Congress was probing into governmental corruption and big business. The respective authors: Justices Felix Frankfurter and Hugo Black, who last week joined the Earl Warren majority in sharply condemning the broad range of questioning pursued by the House Committee on Un-American Activities...
...year the Supreme Court ruled that their military convictions and life sentences for murder were valid, with Justices Tom Clark, Harold Burton, Stanley Reed. Sherman Minton and John Marshall Harlan in the majority, and Chief Justice Earl Warren and Justices Hugo Black and William Douglas in the minority. (Justice Felix Frankfurter reserved his opinion, noting blandly that "wisdom, like good wine, requires maturing...
...Truman's Supreme Court back onto conservative paths. Replacing Vinson (deceased). Earl Warren joined with Old Liberals Black and Douglas to walk hand in hand in the direction of liberalism, and the bloc has been strengthened by Eisenhower-appointed Democrat Brennan. Justices Tom Clark, John Marshall Harlan or Felix Frankfurter go along with the solid, four-member liberal bloc often enough to make it a majority. Truman-appointed Republican Harold Burton has been virtually isolated as the court's only case-to-case conservative...