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...article in appreciation of Mr. Justice Brandeis, who was elected one of the first trustees of the Review in 1889, was contributed by Elmer Balogh, noted continental jurist. The issue also includes "Mr. Justice Brandeis and the Constitution," by Frank-furter, and "Mr. Justice Brandeis and the Regulation of Railroads," by H. W. Bikle, attorney for the Pennsylvania Railroad...
Within 48 hours there were six aspirants for the 54-year-old ousted jurist's $12,000 job. They were a female assistant district attorney who gets $7,500; two female deputy assistants who get $4,000 and $3,240; the sister of a male magistrate; a female attorney; a female member of the State insurance department. Tammany indicated that it would appoint a female to "vindicate" the city's women...
...Monday "at homes." In the evening Mrs. Holmes would sometimes read to her husband while he played solitaire. Now it is the Young Fellow who reads. When Justice Holmes was stronger there was daily at 5 p. m. a 40-minute walk, Young Fellow and tall, fine old jurist flourishing his Irish blackthorn stick, talking of all things, drawing out his young protegee...
Harvard awarded him an honorary LL.D. degree at the Commencement in 1927. In conferring the degree, President Lowell said concerning him. "A jurist consult eminent by his writings, powerful by the weight of his opinions on public and international affairs." He is editor of the "Europaische Gesprache", and of a series of war documents, "Dio Auswartize Politik des Deutschen Reiches...
...Supreme Court was 90 in years, in spirit 30. Over the radio great men led by Chief Justice Hughes praised this famed son of a famed father as few living men are praised. They reviewed his long career-thrice-wounded Union soldier, Harvard scholar, Massachusetts judge, senior jurist of the nation's highest court, liberal dissenter from conservative majorities. Said Dean Charles Edward Clark of Yale's law school: "So often has he been ahead of his generation in scholarship as well as opinion that we may well hesitate to differ with him for fear he but expresses...