Word: frankfurterism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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These assets compensate amply for the production's main problem--a sometimes dated book by Jerome Chodorov and Joseph Fields. Replete with references to people like Felix Frankfurter and Charles C. Dawes and now-defunct New Deal agencies like the NRA, Wonderful Town is in some ways a period piece...
Welch has had a checkered career. He graduated from the University of North Carolina at 16, entered the Naval Academy but dropped out when World War 1 ended, dropped out of Harvard Law School because, his official biography says, "he had one too many arguments with Prof. Felix Frankfurter." Welch...
These restrictions were applied even more severely to faculty appointments. In his memories, Ludwig Lewison tells how he was prevented from teaching English; the noted linguist Edward Sapir relates how he was told by his Professor that as a Jew he could not expect an appointment in the United States...
Plea bargaining is the one fixture of the criminal-justice system that is indisputably efficient. It has, however, left observers cynical about its effects. Typically the state permits a defendant to plead guilty to a reduced charge in return for a sure, final and time-saving conviction. That leads to...
Died. Marion Frankfurter, 84, wife of the late Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter and a shrewd judge of issues and personalities in her own right; in a Washington, D.C., nursing home. A witty, no-nonsense Massachusetts girl, Marion Frankfurter was the editor of many of her husband's nonjudicial...