Word: wilson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Court as elsewhere in the U. S. and in the light of their decisions the three conservatives on the bench at least constitute a cohesive minority united by their profound faith in the rights of Capital. They are in the order of their appointment: James Clark McReynolds (1914), Woodrow Wilson's onetime Attorney-General, a peppery oldster of 75 who mortally fears tobacco smoke; George Sutherland (1922), a onetime (1905-17) Utah Senator, who was one of the four Justices Warren Harding appointed in two years; and Pierce Butler (1922), the bench's only Catholic, a onetime railroad...
...People's Lawyer." When Woodrow Wilson sent Louis Dembitz Brandeis' name to the Senate as a nominee for the Supreme Court in 1916, it caused an uproar over his confirmation which made last summer's disturbance over Hugo Black look like a pillow fight. The Senate's Judiciary Committee wrangled over the Brandeis nomination for four months. From six onetime presidents of the American Bar Association the Committee got a petition stating succinctly that he was "not a fit person to be a member of the Supreme Court." One of the bar association presidents who signed...
Died. Henry Mauris Robinson. 69, financier, friend and adviser to Presidents Wilson. Harding. Coolidge, Hoover; who attended the Paris Peace Conference, the First International Labor Conference, helped draft the Dawes Plan; after a fall; in Pasadena, Calif...
Case Histories: Arnold Berry, Negro field hand and tenant farmer on the Teacher Plantation near Wilson. Ark.. gets 75? a day ("Not seventy-five cents every day in the year, but seventy-five cents a day when there is something for him to do"), earns less than $200 a year, sinks annually $30 or $40 deeper in debt to the plantation store, is of course forbidden to leave the place until the debt is paid off. He considers himself lucky, however, "that he is a tenant on the Teacher Plantation instead of being a tenant on the [adjoining] Harris...
...tendency to favor research to the disadvantage of teaching. To some extent the emphasis of research over teaching has penetrated even the School, for there appears to be a marked stress on courses in educational science--all excellently presented by such first-rate men as Truman Kelley, Spaulding, and Wilson...