Word: minton
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Eisenhower appointed Brennan to the court last Sept. 29, succeeding Justice Sherman Minton, retired, and he was sworn in Oct. 16. Congress was not in session then, and he is now going through the Senate confirmation process...
...Lord Nelson's Ghost. In quiet, refined leisure, the evening passed. The dinner party of 40-odd guests proceeded to a pinepaneled dining room after Sir Christopher Wren, where the courses were served on Royal Worcester blue and gold, Chelsea, Derby and Minton porcelain. Then the ladies floated to the French salon on a cloud of chatter, admired the companion-piece oval Boucher paintings as they gossiped. The gentlemen warmed their brandy in the Lord Nelson room, surrounded by Elizabethan paneling that Nelson himself had admired when it was on the walls of a bedroom in the Star Hotel...
...puzzlement was not without some justification. It was generally known that several other prominent jurists, lawyers, and men of affairs were being considered by the President to fill the seat on the High Court being vacated by Sherman Minton. Among them were Thomas E. Dewey, Chief Justice Vanderbilt of the New Jersey Supreme Court, and Herbert Brownell. But Eisenhower finally selected a relatively unknown and young (fifty years) justice from New Jersey...
...type, dapper and jaunty" will take his place with the eight other "Old Men." Although the motives behind his appointment and the timing and wisdom of the appointment itself remain somewhat of a mystery, it must nevertheless be hoped that the new Justice will fill the shoes of Sherman Minton...
...Geography of the court: Warren, California; Black, Alabama; Reed, Kentucky; Frankfurter (who was born in Vienna, taught at Harvard), Massachusetts; Douglas, Washington; Harlan, New York; Burton, Ohio; Clark, Texas; outgoing Shay Minton, Indiana...