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...elections (see p. 15) large and small, proved nothing if not that most of the voters who had gone to the polls had been more concerned with local issues than with national party lines. The President's vote-299th in his District-helped re-elect his friend Elmer Van Wagner by 275 votes...
Philosophical Locations- In the 1920s, Brandeis, his closest friend Oliver Wendell Holmes and Harlan Fiske Stone formed a minority whose famed dissenting opinions became a Court tradition. When the majority had ruled against the right of a stonecutters' union to call a strike against a plaintiff's non-union products, Justice Brandeis, in 1927, summed up what is still an important part of his views on the Sherman Law. Pointing out that the law permitted Capital to combine 50% of the steel industry in one corporation, most of the shoe machinery industry in another, he wrote: "It would...
...they used to go to Mr. Justice Holmes, Harvard Law's top ranking graduates now spend a year with Mr. Brandeis as his secretaries. And through his close friend, Felix Frankfurter, Mr. Brandeis exerts a powerful humanizing influence in the nation's greatest law school. In Washington he and Mrs. Brandeis live in a comfortable, old-fashioned apartment at 2205 California Street, where the Justice, who never goes to his office in the Supreme...
...friend here will go places-perhaps he will be the next mayor of Boston," rumbled Boston's convivial Mayor James Michael Curley at a wedding party for a boyish, promising lieutenant named Maurice J. Tobin in 1932. Last week as James Michael Curley, fresh from the Governor ship of Massachusetts and an unsuccessful campaign for the U. S. Senate, tried to capture his Boston bailiwick for the fourth time, his prediction came bitterly true...
...Author. "Inviting Stuart Cloete to dinner," complains his novelist-friend, E. Arnot Robinson, "one is never quite sure whether one will get the ex-Coldstream Guards' officer . . . who has a disconcerting habit of saying 'Good show' when he means 'How nice,' or whether the unbuttoned half-Dutch ex-farmer from Africa will turn up, liable to be reminded, by the look of the fat lady on his left, of a post mortem he did on a cow." Matter-of-fact, 40-year-old, amiably bi-natured. Novelist Cloete has been both. Enlisting...