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Today the Winter Olympics get cover stories in TIME and wall-to-wall television reportage. For the very first Winter Games, held in Chamonix, France, in 1924, TIME devoted a single column to the events. JOHN HESSIN CLARKE, U.S. Supreme Court Justice from 1918 to 1922, appeared on the cover...
...Years Ago in TIME Today the Winter Olympics get major stories in TIME and wall-to-wall television coverage. For the very first Winter Games, held in Chamonix, France, in 1924, TIME covered the events in a single column. JOHN HESSIN CLARKE, U.S. Supreme Court Justice from 1918-22, was featured on the cover...
...signature at the foot of the letter was one which no well-informed citizen would at that time have failed to recognize-John Hessin Clarke. Appointed by Woodrow Wilson six years prior, Mr. Clarke had distinguished himself as a liberal Associate Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court by dissenting twice in the decisions by which the Supreme Court invalidated the Child Labor Acts. Of the present Court, only Justices Van Devanter, McReynolds and Brandeis can recall serving with that outspoken rugged individualistic bachelor Justice. Arch-conservative George Sutherland took his place. Everyone knew at the time of his retirement...
Startled therefore was many a citizen last week to hear that a onetime Justice of the Supreme Court had, at San Diego, Calif., publicly declared his confidence in 1) the Supreme Court, 2) the New Deal. It was John Hessin Clarke, now 79, still very much of his own opinion. Said he : "I can't bring myself to regard seriously the action of declaring a few Acts unconstitutional. The Dred Scott decision was reversed by the Civil War; the legal tender decision was reversed by the Court itself, and the income tax was declared unconstitutional in a five...
...others abhorred?the League-of-Nations idea. By his part in creating the League, by his advocacy of it, which cost him his health, there was no disputing his title. With his death the mantle descends. There is little doubt that it falls upon the shoulders of John Hessin Clarke, former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. No one except Mr. Wilson has a record of greater service to the League-of-Nations idea. No one else is perhaps so willing to bear this honor which is coupled with so much political dislike. Hoover, Hughes and Root cannot take...