Brandeis Emerges as Central Figure in Court Reform Debate
Pathfinder portrays Louis Dembitz Brandeis as the aging liberal anchor of the Supreme Court, its most outspoken critic of “bigness.” The piece contrasts his philosophy with peers like Cardozo Holmes and Sutherland, outlines his early life, public battles for the small man, and the tension over his 1916 confirmation and later role in FDR era debates on court packing.
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Roosevelt
Supreme Court
Louis Dembitz Brandeis
Brandeis
Sutherland
Hughes
McReynolds
Butler
Brandeish
Benjamin Cardozo
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Cardozo
Holmes
NRA
Oklahoma
Stone
AAA
Guffey Coalact
TVA
Adolph
Fredericka Brandeis
Bohemia
Louisville
Alice Goldmark
New York City
Washington
Bandeis
Taft
United States
Mr. Taft
Justice Brandeis
Wind Through Lubbock Plains Seen As Softer Today
George C. Wolffarth recalls wind in the Lubbock area from fifty years ago, contrasting it with today’s gentler breezes. He recounts tales of weather driving work, a swinging streetlight, a wind-warped bank building, a clay-wind event that wore a washbench to a plate, and a sandstorm fanning a grass fire near Grovesville and Crosbyton.
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Lubbock
George C
Tildy) Wolffarth
Wolffarth
Lubbock County
Bert McWhorter
McWhorter
Seminole
Main Street
C. O. Groves
Grovesille
Science Speaks on Alcohol and Habit Forming Drugs
A UNC Medical School review by Dr. Grant L. Donnelly cautions that alcohol offers no real medicinal value. It notes alcohol can be dangerous in fainting, ineffective against snake bites, heat stroke, and colds, and weakens defenses. Beer fat is flabby and large beer drinkers risk weak hearts. old tuberculosis remedies like rock and rye are outmoded.
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Grant L. Donnelly
Medical School
University of North Carolina
Frugal living lures veteran with fortune
Cicero A Burgess of Tucson says he lost 16 pounds in a month due to high living costs. The longtime wage earner, with $3,400 annual income and $30,000 saved, seeks reinstatement to an $87 monthly job at the U S Veterans Hospital. He earned funds from an oil field in Carthage Texas and owns a 114 acre farm. He plans to invest in government bonds and educate his two children while pursuing a decent job with less hard labor. He recalls Uncle Sam bought his only overcoat in army service.
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University of Dresden
Germany
Adolph Brandeis
Harvard University
St. Louis
Sam Warren
Boston
Brandeis
Brandeis, Nutter and Dunbar
Boston Traction
Washington
New Haven
Wilson
Senate
Justice Lamar
Senate Judiciary Committee
American Bar Association
William Howard Taft
Culbertson
Woodrow Wilson
McReynolds
Tucson
Ariz
Cicero A. Burgess
U. S. Veterans’ Hospital
Burgess
Carthage
Tex
Sam
Riddle About Moon Heaviness Circulates in Print
A classic conundrum asks which is heavier the half moon or the full moon. The playful answer declares the half is heavier because the full moon is as light again.
Record Dubb and Rubb Exchange Vegetable Earth Quips
Dubb asserts he has lived on vegetables for two weeks while Rubb counters with a longer lived on earth claim of twelve years. The exchange frames a playful boast between the two speakers.
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Stephens & Bryant Insurance Agency
First Nat'l Bank
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