Word: justiceship
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...eloquent as the one he read this week, by no means reveals Associate Justice Hugo Black's exact philosophical locality. Harlan Fiske Stone, onetime dean of Columbia University Law School and Attorney General under Calvin Coolidge, once reportedly slated (by President Hoover) for the Chief Justiceship that Charles Evans Hughes surprisingly accepted in 1930, was raised to the bench in 1925. His liberalism, mostly acquired thereafter, contains more tolerance than militancy. Humanitarian Benjamin Nathan Cardozo's liberalism comes from the heart...
Another man might contemplate the chief justiceship with some reluctance. Not so Charles Evans Hughes. It is a lonely job?one of the world's few entirely exalted and lonely life-jobs. By custom the Chief Justice is hedged off from free and easy association with his fellow beings lest they in some inexplicable manner corrupt his integrity, warp his judicial soul. Chief Justice White sought solitude to the point of never accepting a Washington invitation, of avoiding all official functions. For all his surface affability Chief Justice Taft observed much the same caution in his daily contacts. He shunned...