Word: hooverness
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...Associate Justice in 1910 and the Republican Party lured him off in 1916 to run unsuccessfully for the Presidency. But the G.O.P. has more than made up that defeat to him. He served Warren Harding and Calvin Coolidge four years as Secretary of State and in 1930 Herbert Hoover gave him the highest judicial post in the land. Where does the Chief Justice stand today? New Dealers find it a delicate point. In such liberal victories as the Minnesota Moratorium and the first New York Milk Control cases. Chief Justice Hughes's vote was decisive in 5-4 divisions...
Associate Justice Pierce Butler of Minnesota used to be a law partner of William D. Mitchell, President Hoover's Attorney General. Mr. Justice Sutherland, a courteous old gentleman of 72, has angered liberals because he resolutely holds in his opinions that most efforts of states to regulate industry were contrary to the 14th ("due process of law") Amendment. Mr. Justice Butler has them equally enraged. He resolutely holds against citizenship for pacifists and for convictions for criminal syndicalists...
...corporation lawyer in Pennsylvania until President Coolidge put him in charge of the criminal prosecution of the Naval Oil Scandals. He sent Albert Bacon Fall to jail for a year, and made a great public name for himself, to boot. On the Supreme Court, to which President Hoover appointed him in 1930, he has been conservative-he voted with the majority on the Oklahoma Ice case-but he has also been New Dealish, voting with the liberals on the Minnesota Mortgage and New York Milk cases...
...President Hoover, having had difficulty in finding a successor to Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, named Judge Cardozo to the Supreme Court at the suggestion of Senators Borah and Wagner...
...modest man with a quiet charm. When he started to reduce the Public Debt, with a consequent reduction in taxation, enthusiastic G.O. Partisans tagged him with the silly title of "greatest Secretary of the Treasury since Alexander Hamilton." To cap his long service with a special honor President Hoover appointed Mr. Mellon Ambassador to the Court of St. James's in 1932. After a gently graceful year in London, Mr. Mellon stepped quietly back to private life on March 17, 1933. He did not hope for respect from the new Administration but he did expect peace...