Word: opinionative
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Socialist Party of Berne called a demonstration in order to get this fact, disturbing public opinion, cleared...
...involved the right of the Federal Trade Commission to prevent Standard Education Society from advertising, as a free gift for subscribers to its $69.50 loose-leaf supplement service, an encyclopedia which the F. T. C. had found normally sold at $69.50 with no charge for the supplement. In his opinion, in which all of his eight colleagues concurred, Justice Black ruled for the Commission, gave an outline of his reasoning...
...judicial calm of the Supreme Court, all this produced this week what in less august surroundings would have been a buzz of excitement. The opinion was the first of the Court's 1937-38 term. It also was the first one written by the Court's newest member and an exception to the procedure whereby new Justices serve an initial period before being called upon to speak for their colleagues. When Justice Black had finished, the Court proceeded to the rest of the day's business. By a 5-to-4 majority-Justices Brandeis, Stone, Cardozo, Black...
When Justice Benjamin Nathan Cardozo replaced Justice Holmes in 1932, the change did nothing to alter the Court's balance and it was a minority again which defended Florida's right to impose a system of graduated taxes on chain stores. Brandeis' opinion, in this case too, was the statement of a fundamental tenet. "There is a widespread belief that . . . only by releasing from corporate control the faculties of the unknown many . . . can confidence in our future be restored. ... If the citizens of Florida share that belief, I know of nothing in the Federal Constitution which precludes...
...Court's well defined sides. Both are closer to the liberals than to their hard-shelled conservative colleagues with whom they were aligned in this week's employe bonus case. Among the Court's current liberal majority, the shadings of viewpoint are subtler. A single opinion, even when it is as 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...