Word: frankfurterism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Holmes dissents carried as much weight as his concurring opinions and, as a later Supreme Court, Justice, Fells Frankfurter commented they often "shaped history."
The Law School acquired the Holmes papers in 1968, after the death of Mark DeWolfe Howe, Holmes' official biographer. Howe was also a Holmes clerk and a Law School professor. Chadbourn has been planning the exhibit since 1968 but felt compelled to present shows on Roscoe Pound and learned Hand...
A magna cum laude graduate from Harvard Law School in 1946, Coleman was selected by Justice Felix Frankfurter to be the first black law clerk in the history of the Supreme Court. He and another young clerk, Elliot Richardson, used to spend one uninterrupted hour each morning reading poetry together...
Died. Alexander Mordecai Bickel, 49, distinguished constitutional lawyer and Yale Law professor; of cancer; in New Haven. A native of Bucharest, Rumania, Bickel emigrated to New York in 1939, manned a machine gun with the U.S. infantry in Italy and France and graduated summa cum laude from Harvard Law School...
The affair served to confirm all the worst suspicions about the CIA and its exaggerated image as a vast conspiracy. Reaction abroad ranged from incredulity to dismay. The London Times called the revelations "a bitter draught" for those who regard the U.S. as "sometimes clumsy, often misunderstood, but fundamentally honorable...