Word: taney
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thorpe Club members, who will argue for the appellants, are George I. Meisel, and Paul N. Temple, Lawrence C. Dargan, Jr., Robert Krones, Saul G. Marias, and Charles H. Oldfather, Jr., have written the brief. The Taney Club will represent the appellees. Leonard K. Simmer has written the brief, and Robert W. Culbert and James F. Lovett will argue...
Tonight's finalists are the Thorpe Club and the Taney Club, which now numbers only three men. If the Taney Club wins, it will be the first time in the 25-year history of the Ames Competition that such an undermanned unit has been awarded the prize. Materially, the winners get $300, the losers...
There was C. C. Cambreleng, "the crony of Van Buren"; Roger B. ("Dred Scott") Taney, "the spearhead of radicalism in the new cabinet" ("a tall sharp-faced man, with irregular yellow teeth, generally clamped on a long black cigar, he made a bad first impression," but his reasoning and his conviction won him friends). There was Amos Kendall, the Harry Hopkins of the age ("his chronic bad health may have created a special bond with the President, and Jackson soon began to rely on Kendall for aid in writing his messages. . . . Gradually, Kendall's supreme skill in interpreting, verbalizing...
Noteworthy fact about the swap: in their new setting in the Supreme Court room, Carpenter's emancipators looked directly across the room at the bust of Chief Justice Roger B. Taney, who handed down the anti-Negro Dred Scott decision...
...Presidents saw red in the rising sun of the Court. Andrew Jackson was one. "John Marshall has made his decision," he bellowed when the Court made Indians Government wards, "now let him enforce it!" Abraham Lincoln, whose election was due in no small part to Chief Justice Roger B. Taney's pro-slavery decision against old Dred Scott, ordered an Army fort commander to ignore a writ of habeas corpus issued by Chief Justice Taney. U. S. Grant packed the Court, got a 4-3 unfavorable decision reversed...