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Felix Frankfurter Reminisces, recorded in talks with Dr. Harlan B. Phillips. A great jurist's informal recollections make for a lively, teasing, stimulating source of Americana...
FELIX FRANKFURTER REMINISCES (310 pp.)-Recorded in folks with Dr. Harlan B. Phillips...
...recorded for posterity the recollections of 600 prominent Americans. "Whether through weakness or good nature," Justice Frankfurter consented to publication of the interviews while he was still living. Talking for more than 50 hours at various times between 1953 and 1957, in response to brief questions from Columbia Historian Harlan Phillips, Frankfurter rambled on about life, politics, God, Harvard Law School, philosophy, ethics and the quirks of mankind. Edited down to book size, his conversation makes a lively, teasing, opinionated, often stimulating volume, and a rich source of Americana...
Last week Congressmen criticized the court for an uneven decision and promised to hopper several bills to change it. With somewhat better cause, Justice John Marshall Harlan criticized Congress for passing "this ill-defined statute," which compelled seven judges to write six separate decisions that settled the claims of five states by setting two different sets of boundaries...
Died. John Harlan Amen, 61, mild-mannered New York and U.S. attorney who used antitrust laws to fight rackets and won more than 250 convictions from 1928 to 1938, investigated corruption in Brooklyn and exposed scores of gangland-tied policemen, judges, lawyers, and three assistant district attorneys, also served as counsel during the Nuremberg trials, then was a Truman appointee to the Federal Loyalty Review Board; of a perforated ulcer; in Manhattan...