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...congratulatory letter from Associate Justice Felix Frankfurter of the Supreme Court featured the celebration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Legal Aid Bureau last night...
...poster included distortions of names such as "Felix Finkleberger" and "Of Of Goldstein". Stating definitely that the poster was not anti-Semitic Hart said, "One might argue that it is anti-Irish, because the name Thomson was distorted, or anti-Russian or anti-German. If so, well then it might be called anti-Semitic, for among the twenty names ridiculed, two happened to be Jews...
After their election victories of last November, it is now the turn of Rightists to try pillars of the Left, and ever since Congress convened they have been at it. Felix Frankfurter, Harry Hopkins, Frank Murphy led the parade, were obliged to take the witness chair and state publicly their political beliefs. Comparatively they made a much less diverting show, for the possession of even "radical" beliefs is less dramatic than the possession of great wealth, and these Leftists were far nimbler witnesses than the scared Rightists. Last week came the trials of two more Leftists, and again the performances...
...ghost of Franklin Roosevelt's ambitious Court Plan-permitting Justices with ten years' service to retire on their full $20,000 salary after 70. Whether he did so for his health, or to head a world-wide crusade for less fortunate Jews, or because his friend Felix Frankfurter was at last at hand to carry on his judicial tradition in the Court, Louis Brandeis did not say. When his letter was released later in the afternoon, he refused to discuss it. Franklin Roosevelt wrote a gracious reply: "One must perforce accept the inevitable. . . . There is nothing...
Brahms: Symphony No. 3 in F Major (London Philharmonic, Felix Weingartner conducting; Columbia: 8 sides). Best recording to date of a great Romantic symphony...