Word: griswold
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Break down the barriers which have protected the independence of the Supreme Court, and the way will lie broad and open for the first man who would be dictator, whatever his name may prove to be," declared Professor Griswold. He asserted that there had been a "no man's land" between Federal and State authority, but that Monday's decision by the Supreme Court, reversing its stand on the minimum wage act, completely altered this "twilight zone...
...alumnus of Oberlin College, Professor Griswold was a member of the Law School Class of 1928, at which time he was president of the Law Review. After working in the Attorney General's office for five years, when Washington circles declared that the Supreme Court would rather listen to him and John W. Davis than any other barristers, Professor Griswold came back to the Law School to give courses on tax cases and conflicts of laws...
After signing, on March 7, the "round-robin" protest against the court change, Professor Griswold, participating in a symposium, decried the proposed judiciary legislation. Although he has been a constant opponent of court change, his sympathies have tended to agree with those of the minority of he court...
Advocating an amendment proposed by Samuel H. Ordway, civil service commissioner of New York City, Professor Griswold contended that such a measure, providing for nine justices with 18-year terms, would not be subject to "constitutional or political objections...
Speaking before a huge crowd in the Senate chambers, Professor Griswold went on to emphasize the seriousness of the crisis. He insisted that, "it does not follow that it is good government for the President to be made a super-court...