Word: law
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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 turned down an appointment to the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts. In 1933 he turned down Franklin Roosevelt's offer to make him Solicitor General. Last week, however, Franklin Roosevelt made Felix Frankfurter an offer he could not reject: to ascend to the famed "scholar's seat...
...Friends. Thus was crowned a friendship that began in New York City in 1907. When Franklin Roosevelt, fresh from Columbia Law School, was a well-dressed young man in the offices of Carter, Ledyard & Milburn, he met Felix Frankfurter, who was the smart young trust-busting assistant of Roosevelt I's U. S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Henry L. Stimson...
...family of rabbis, learned to speak English (with an occasional thickened s) after he was brought to the U. S. at the age of twelve. From a job delivering chemicals at $4 a week he worked his way through New York's City College into the Harvard Law School, which graduated him with highest honors in 1906. After a spell of moneymaking in the Stimson office and three years in Washington as law officer of the Bureau of Insular Affairs, in 1914 Star Pupil Frankfurter was invited back to Harvard to teach...
Harvard's Byrne Professor of Administrative Law believes above all else that the independent Government boards and agencies that have taken over much of the lawmaker's function should be no more arbitrary than other lawmakers. If Fighter Frankfurter's enthusiasm for drawing this line inconveniences red hot New Dealers, at 56 Felix Frankfurter may still be in a bitter fight after he joins the Supreme Court...
...Burgos, capital of Generalissimo Francisco Franco's Insurgent Spain, the press blithely ducked Mr. Roosevelt's condemnation of aggressors and his recommendation that the U. S. neutrality law be revised to forestall them. "The shoe," remarked the Insurgent newsorgan, Voz de España, "does not fit Burgos...