Word: pitney
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pitney--Lee, Copp v. Westengard--Buttles, Thompson...
...Coolidge, with a company of executive and judicial notables, attended the funeral ceremonies for Mahlon Pitney, onetime Associate Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court. (See MILESTONES...
Died. U. S. Supreme Court Justice Mahlon Pitney, retired, 66, in Washington, after a long illness. Two strokes of paralysis forced him to resign from the Supreme Court bench two years ago. He was appointed in 1912 by President Taft, whom he met at a dinner given by the Governor of New Jersey. At that dinner he charmed Mr. Taft with pungent anecdotes; they ate, reminisced, chortled together. Soon after, Justice Pitney was notified of his appointment. He had previously sat on the Supreme Bench of New Jersey...
...indeed difficult to name, offhand, another college class to equal Amherst '95. The obvious comparison is Princeton '79, whose membership includes Woodrow Wilson, Mahlon Pitney (former Justice of the United States Supreme Court), Cyrus H. McCormick (head of the International Harvester Co.), Robert Bridges (editor of Scribner's Magazine), Cleveland H. Dodge (major capitalist and philanthropist...
...President Wilson's second term it could be prophesied that, in a really doubtful case, three would favor the conservative view-Justices White, Van Devanter and McReynolds-and three- Justices Holmes, Brandeis and Clarke-would favor the liberal. The other members of the court, Justices McKenna, Day and Pitney, were the deciding factors. Justice McKenna has been generally but not invariably conservative, while Justice Day often, and Justice Pitney occasionally, joined the liberal group. The appointment of Chief Justice Taft in place of Chief Justice White tended to liberalize the court, for, while he has upheld the injunction...