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...years after his retirement, in the plain, bare apartment where he had lived for 25 years with the wife he was devoted to, Louis Brandeis died, at 84. Next day the new Supreme Court met for the first session of its first term under a new Chief Justice. Harlan Fiske Stone is a man who solidly stands behind the solid words of Louis Brandeis: "[The makers of the Constitution] conferred, "as against the Government, the right to be let alone-the most comprehensive of rights and the right most valued by civilized...
Chief reason was the President's appointment of Harlan Stone, 68, Republican, liberal, a Coolidge appointee, as Chief Justice. Last week the U.S. realized how much it liked the idea of a solid man as Chief Justice to follow Charles Evans Hughes. And solid is the word for Chief Justice Stone-200 lb., with heavy, good-natured features and a benign judicial air. On the bench, Frankfurter moves around and makes notes; Douglas looks restless and bored; Murphy stares pensively under his bushy eyebrows; Black smiles enigmatically to himself; but Mr. Justice Stone, leaning forward impassively, his grey hair...
...knew where Justice Stone stood, and approved what it knew he stood for. New Hampshire-born (Calvin Coolidge used to run legal errands for his father), Harlan Stone had been dean of the Columbia Law School, was back in private practice when Calvin Coolidge made him Attorney General. He had barely begun anti-trust proceedings against Aluminum Co. of America when he was appointed to the Court in 1925. Attacked as a corporation lawyer, he turned out to be a solid liberal who was soon writing dissents with Holmes and Brandeis. He dissented when the AAA was declared un constitutional...
...sometimes he leaned close to his interviewer and lowered his voice confidentially, sometimes he raised his one good arm and shook his forefinger under Hale's nose. Hale suppressed that interview, which was one of the Kaiser's most famed indiscretions. Reporter Hale's son, William Harlan Hale, printed it in 1934. It was of historical interest last week...
Astronomer Harlan True Stetson of M.I.T. and other scientists think this theory is entirely reasonable. But the combined influence of potassium and cosmic rays does not now appear adequate to explain spontaneous mutations. It is possible, notes Dr. Failla, that relatively "very small amounts of radiation are much more genetically effective than large ones...