Word: hessin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...