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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...education (he was against it), sex education, birth control. On the U. S. as a whole his efforts cannot be said to have had marked effect, unless they retarded inevitable progress toward more latitude in all these directions. One success was in furthering a self-imposed censorship of cinema (see p. 67). Catholic lobbies maintained in Washington to exert pressure on national legislation have had as their recent targets Child Labor legislation (against it), Federal control of education (against it), the embargo on Loyalist Spain (against lifting...
...Sweringen, Richard Whitney, George H. Howard, et al., headed by the matchless act of J. P. Morgan & the Midget (see...
...repeated that the reason she had not gone further into the case of Harry Bridges was that she was waiting for the Supreme Court to decide the parallel case of Joe Strecker, which Solicitor-General Jackson was about to prosecute for her with real vim (see p. 14). She expressed awe at the immense power she wields over aliens, as their investigator, prosecutor, jury and judge. Because of this, she said, she always tries to act "with scrupulous fairness." She said: "I have entire faith and confidence that Congress will protect me and secure my rights and reputation...
...left of Chief Justice Hughes last Monday afternoon, having returned to duty only a week before after an attack of grippe, sat the Supreme Court's oldest and, to some minds most distinguished member. Spectators who had come to hear the arguments in the Strecker deportation case (see p. 14), occasionally glanced at the little, attentive old man, his head, crowned by fluffs of unruly grey hair, dwarfing the narrow, black-robed shoulders. As was not unusual for Mr. Justice Brandeis, he was smiling to himself...
...until he was an old man did Louis Brandeis see an era where many men in power shared his penetrations and fears. A "liberal" Justice before the New Deal crystallized division of social & political thought on the Supreme Court, in his old age Brandeis moved from dissent to assent. But he was no "New Deal Justice." The core of his social philosophy was a distrust of all arrangements, public or private, that too heavily taxed human fallibility. His grave objection to NRA was vigorously made known to all his colleagues. He resented humanly the attack on age which Franklin Roosevelt...