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...donned his robes of office, Felix Frankfurter, former Law School professor, started the final formalities that placed him on the Supreme Court bench Monday. He was inducted into office and sat in on his first hearing...
...port of Aden lies on the edge of a huge, volcanic rock on the tilted coast of southwest Arabia about 100 miles from the mouth of the Red Sea. Romans called the neighboring territory Arabia Felix. Kipling, with a sharper eye for the facts, called Aden "a barrick-stove." It is one of the hottest, most forlorn spots in the British Empire, of which it became a part just a century ago. Its acquisition as Queen Victoria's first colony made the young virgin Queen very happy. She, the Romans and Aden's Governor, Lieut.-Colonel Sir Bernard...
...these words Edmund M. Morgan, Royall Professor of Law, and formerly acting Dean of the Law School, addressed one of his new classes at the Law School the other day. Morgan is one of the chief cogs in the complicated Faculty shifting which was necessitated by the appointment of Felix Frankfurter to the Supreme Court...
Frankfurter. In deference to the dignity of the Supreme Court a Judiciary subcommittee offered, and Felix Frankfurter accepted, a chance to let him appear not in person but through counsel. Dapper Dean Acheson, onetime Under Secretary of the Treasury, appeared for him and heard an assortment of minor patriots condemn his client as a Red, a Jew, an alien. One condemner was rich, blonde Mrs. Elizabeth (The Red Network) Dilling of Chicago, who based her Frankfurterphobia largely on his long membership in the American Civil Liberties Union (which once defended her right to attack the New Deal on the radio...
...Felix Frankfurter remained composed. An hour later the committee voted to confirm...