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Last week, in a 5-3 decision which dissenting Justice Felix Frankfurter said "makes a mockery" of the Fourth Amendment, the Supreme Court held that officers engaged in lawful arrest may search premises without a search warrant.. Justice Sherman ("Shay") Minton, newest member of the nation's highest tribunal, wrote the majority opinion, his first important one. Former Attorney General Robert H. Jackson joined Frankfurter in a biting dissent, and Hugo Black wrote a separate dissenting opinion...
...honor graduate of Johns Hopkins University and a graduate cum laude of Harvard Law School, where he had been a favorite student of Professor Felix Frankfurter. The year was 1929, and he had won the coveted apprenticeship job of law-clerking for Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes. He married Priscilla Fansler Hobson, 26, a Quaker a divorcee and the mother of a three-year...
Unequivocal Endorsements. Berle, as he later explained, decided that the Chambers evidence was pretty thin. In 1941 he checked on the Hiss brothers by inquiring of their friend Assistant Secretary of State Dean Acheson and their old mentor Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter. Both of them, Berle said, gave the Hisses their unequivocal endorsements. Acheson was to testify that his endorsement had only covered Donald Hiss, who was his executive assistant; but he added that Alger Hiss and he were "friends and remain friends...
...seemed more surely marked for success, and few had found the path to it more smooth. Handsome, popular, effortlessly brilliant, Alger Hiss had been a Harvard protégé of Felix Frankfurter, secretary to the late great Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes. Among the New Deal's bright young men, he rose steadily. Soon he became a familiar figure at high councils of state, sitting just behind the men at the green-topped tables of power. As secretary general of the San Francisco Conference, he was shown in the news pictures between Russia's Molotov...
After the President was honored, the guests clinked their glasses for Felix, who was tossed as "The President of Harvard Square...