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...sooner had Supreme Court Justice Sherman Minton announced his resignation last month than rumors started about the name of his successor. Columnist Drew Pearson reported that a Negro, Judge William H. Hastie of Philadelphia's Third U.S. Court of Appeals and former governor of the Virgin Islands, was a likely candidate. At presidential press conferences, reporters badgered Ike on the possibilities of a Southern appointee to salve bitter feelings over the segregation issue, or perhaps a New Englander, to get a wider geographical spread on the court...
Four Law School professors differed sharply yesterday concerning Saturday's appointment of Justice William Brennan to fill Sherman Minton's place on the U.S. Supreme Court, with three praising the choice and the fourth accusing the President of "playing politics...
...School professors urged last night that Judge Learned Hand '93, retired judge of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, be given an interim appointment to the U.S. Supreme Court. Hand would occupy the seat to be made vacant next month by Sherman Minton's retirement...
...Judge Minton had a heart attack in 1945, four years before Harry Truman named him to the highest court. He recovered, but developed pernicious anemia about a year later. "It's hard for me to walk more than a block, and this last term I had to take to a cane," he said. "My knees buckle and I lose my balance. It's pretty depressing. This thing keeps pecking away at me. Worst of all, it's gone to my brain. It affects my power to concentrate and think and retain arguments in my mind...
Thus did Shay Minton, New Deal fire-eater and reticent lawyer, step out of the U.S. scene on full pay, by reason of his long service, of $35,000 a year for the rest of his life. "It is not an easy place to leave," he said sadly. "I hate to go." Then he thought of the future and the past, and added: "There will be more interest in who will succeed me than in my passing. I'm an echo...