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...Lowell had intensified the racial issue by raising it before trial. Southern resentment against Judge Lowell quickly boiled to a climax in the House of Representatives. Two days after the Boston ruling Virginia's Representative Howard Smith, whose district includes Loudoun County, arose and solemnly impeached the Massachusetts jurist for high crimes and misdemeanors. The gist of seven counts against him was that Judge Lowell...
Bostonians know Judge Lowell, whose mother was an Emerson, as the jurist who wears flashy cravats and lurid waistcoats, waves to friends from the bench, potters about with flowers. They like to bracket him as a legal libertarian with those other two Massachusetts justices, Oliver Wendell Holmes and Louis Dembitz Brandeis. In 1930 Judge Lowell suffered a paralytic stroke that affected his walk. Last year when a Prohibition case based on wiretapping was before him, he effected an acquittal by addressing the jury thus: "We love to think of Uncle Sam as a thoroughly upright man. . . . Let us look...
...that Judge Louderback should only be censured. But Representative La Guardia was for impeachment. Last week when the censure resolution came up in the House, he took the floor with such a fiery speech that the House reversed its committee and voted (183-to-142) to order the California jurist before the Senate for trial and possible removal from office. It was the eleventh impeachment in House history...
...began to think she never would. In a weak moment she married a likable fellow-charitarian, quickly discovered that he was a windy fake. But she tried to keep things patched up till one evening she met the Right Man: Judge Barney Dolphin, able but not too scrupulous Manhattan jurist, with a Broadway reputation and a wife of his own. They fell in love immediately, and Ann let nothing make any difference. She bore Barney's child, divorced her husband, stood by her man when scandal broke him and sent him to jail, waited for his release, got ready...
...Justice Brandeis" is a collection of critical essays on the legal thought of this jurist, written by six prominent lawyers for various law journals on the occasion of Brandeis' seventy-fifth birthday. After a short article by Charles E. Hughes, the others take up his social thought, his attitude toward the Constitution, his industrial liberalism, and his ideas on the regulation of the railroads. Altogether, it is "a collection of sketches, not a life-size portrait" of a man who will probably take his place in history as a leading expounder of "the living...