Word: freund
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...choke the still anemic housing industry, squeeze thousands of small- and medium-sized businesses out of the credit market and eventually abort the recovery-leaving the U.S. with insufficient plant capacity and an intolerably high level of unemployment. One of the gloomiest prognosticators, New York Stock Exchange Economist William Freund, calculates the investment needs of private industry alone at more than $4 trillion over the next decade. Freund predicts that industry will come up short by about $650 billion...
...Freund's companion. Thomas g. Corcoran, told Holmes that he was "the primal flame to which we come to light our torches." The justice replied. "There may once have been a little spark, but now all is ashes." Freund remembered a "deathly silence" falling afterwards...
...Freund's remarks came at the inauguration last Thursday of a special exhibition at the Law School marking the 40th anniversary of Holmes's death. A Harvard law professor and a distinguished Justice of the Massachusetts and United States Supreme Courts, Holmes stands as one of the intellectual titans...
...main library. With its heavy wooden paneling, subdued colors, and muted lighting, the room seemed like a perfect place in which to honor 'Justice Holmes. Dark grays and navy blues, those colors so basic to lawyers' wardrobes, predominated throughout the room. The low murmur lapsed into silence as Freund rose to deliver the main address...
...Within the chambers of the Court, he carried off his labors with a jauntiness of spirit that disguised the meticulous care of his note-taking off the bench and his analysis of the issues." Freund said of Holmes. He summed up his impression of the man by observing that "the joyous freedom of his mind, the greatness of his life, and the high way he took his mortality made him an exemplar for a time of searching...