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...other mistresses. Danglar, pinned to the wall, stammers what we had suspected all along: Nini could never keep him tied down; his life is the theatre and he loves only what he creates, while he is creating it. "You!" he says, pointing to Nini, and "You!" to Lola (Maria Felix), a magnificent woman who was once his lover, now a dedicated member of the troupe...
...argument against judges is that a broader man is often to be found elsewhere. And some see Supreme Court Justices as a breed apart-historians, prophets, politicians and philosophers, as well as judges. "The correlation between prior judicial experience and fitness for the Supreme Court," declared Felix Frankfurter, "is zero...
...more backbone than a banana. After Wilson appointed what he thought was the "liberal" James C. McReynolds in 1914, his protege became one of the court's alltime archconservatives. Does every man change when he dons those robes? "If he is any good, he does," said Felix Frankfurter, who was himself accused of moving from left to center during his 23 years on the highest bench. As Harry Truman lamented for all Presidents: "Whenever you put a man on the Supreme Court, he ceases to be your friend. I'm sure of that...
...Nelson, Ward Hunt, Samuel Blatchford, Rufus Peckham, Charles Evans Hughes, Harlan Stone, Benjamin Cardozo, Robert Jackson, John Harlan; Ohio (8): Noah Swayne, Salmon Chase, Morrison Waite, Stanley Matthews, William Day, John Clarke, Harold Burton, Potter Stewart; Massachusetts (6): Benjamin Curtis, Horace Gray, Oliver Wendell Holmes, William Moody, Louis Brandeis, Felix Frankfurter.* Jackson and Taft also nominated...
Judge George Hart Jr. refused to rule on the merits of Powell's case. Declaring that the historic separation of judicial and legislative powers deprived the court of jurisdiction, Hart added to a dictum of Justice Felix Frankfurter's with the observation: "For this court to order any member of the House of Representatives, any officer of the House or any employee of the House to do or not to do any act related to the organization of membership of that House would be for the court to crash through a political thicket into political quicksand...