Word: holmesing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Men who manage employment agencies tend to become critical about jobs. Naturally choosy is greyish, gracious little Harvard Law Professor Felix Frankfurter, who ran a one-man, unofficial, unpaid employment agency for legal talent for 25 years before it found its biggest client in the New Deal. In 1932 he...
Friend Cardozo performed Felix Frankfurter's marriage ceremony in 1919. Friend Holmes told Massachusetts it would be lucky to get him on its Supreme Court. Friend Roosevelt's tribute last week was equally impressive. For up to the last moment pressure was strong on the President to make...
Young Roosevelt and young Frankfurter met again in Wartime Washington, Roosevelt as Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Frankfurter as a legal jack-of-all-trades who wound up as assistant and right-hand man to Secretary of War Newton Baker. Both were members of the War Labor Policies Board, set...
The book had been dedicated in these words. "To Mr. Justice Cardoza, rightful successor of Mr. Justice Holmes." Professor Frankfurter sent a specially stricken copy of this dedication to the death bed of the man whom he was named to succeed yesterday.
Frank Murphy said that Frankfurter "is the natural successor of Holmes and Cardozo . . . one of the most distinguished legal scholars of our time."