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...week's end the White House announced that Ike had found a man to fit his specifications. Appointed to the bench to succeed "Shay" Minton: New Jersey's Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan Jr., 50, a Roman Catholic (the first on the court since Frank Murphy) and lifelong Democrat (one of six). More important, Brennan is a jurist of solid experience and reputation (see box), was recommended for the job by New Jersey's able Chief Justice Arthur T. Vanderbilt, and will be-with Justice Hugo Black and John Marshall Harlan-one of the three Supreme...
...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...
...Time was," said U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sherman ("Shay") Minton last week, "when they waited onan elderly Justice and told him he wasn't doing his work right. I don't want that to happen to me." So saying, Justice Minton, 65, tendered his resignation from the court, effective Oct, 15, for reasons of ill health, thereby terminating a career of 15 unremarkable years on federal benches and eight remarkable years in the brawling, bruising New Deal politics of his home state of Indiana and the Senate...
Born poor in the southern Indiana hill country, Shay Minton went to work when he was "about 14," put himself through Indiana University and Law School (top of the class) and Yale Law School (cum laude, 1916), served in the infantry in World War I at Soissons and Verdun. Settling in New Albany, Ind., he practiced law, was elected to the U.S. Senate in Depression-drugged 1934 with a straight New Deal platform and a battle cry: "You can't offer a hungry man the Constitution." For six years Minton had a place in the vanguard...
...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...