Democratic Justice, page 106
61
failed to find success: FF, “Herbert Croly and American Political Opinion,” at 247; David W. Levy, Herbert Croly of The New Republic, 3–95 (1985) (early life); id. at 132–61 (reception of The Promise).
61
“It was”: HC to LH, circa late 1/1913, at 3, LHP, Box 102, Folder 102-20; LH to Croly, 1/30/1913, at 1, id. (agreeing).
62
“Buddha”: Mabel Dodge Luhan, Movers and Shakers, 89, 119 (1936) & Ronald Steel, Walter Lippmann and the American Century, 31 (1980).
62
“radically progressive” & “weekly”: NYT, 4/24/1914, at 11.
62
proposed names: WL, “Notes for a Biography,” at 251. On history of magazine, see Charles Forcey, The Crossroads of Liberalism (1961); Levy, Herbert Croly of The New Republic; David Seideman, The New Republic (1986).
62
“If I only”: HC to LH, 12/21/1913, at 3, LHP, Box 102, Folder 102-21. See FF to HC, n.d., id., Box 104A, Folder 104-2 (choosing Harvard over New Republic).
62
Harvard Corporation & Board of Overseers: HLS, “The New Professor at the Law School,” Harvard Alumni Bulletin, 4/1/1914, at 431.
62–63
“[T]he great changes” & “His industry”: Id. at 432–33.
63
“counsellors”: “A Dinner of Introduction and Anticipation given at The Players on the night of April the Ninth, Nineteen hundred and fourteen by the Republic to its Counsellors Contributors and Friends,” Invitation to Robert Valentine (on file with author).
63
incorporators: NYT, 4/30/1914, at 13.
63
editorial board: FF to Ezra Thayer, 8/28/1914, at 1, Harvard Law School Dean’s Office Files, Box 1.
63
contributor: NYT, 11/7/1914, at 2.
63
Colonel Roosevelt: WL Diary, 7/4/1914, at 2–3, WLP, Reel 160; NYT, 5/28/1914, at 4; NYSun, 5/28/1914, at 5.
63
“the ablest”: ERB to FF, 4/16/1914, at 2.
63
“That means”: FF to TR, 7/8/1911, at 1, TRP, Reel 187, Series 1, Image 673.
64
“the right behavior”: TR to FF, 7/11/1914, id., Reel 384, Series 3A, Image 44.
64
November election: TR to FF, 8/6/1914, id., Image 119.
64
resigned: WP, 6/7/1914, at E2.
64
“Three happy years”: FF to RGV & SFV, n.d., at 1, RGVP, Carton 9, Folder 75.
64
“Did you ever”: WashTimes, 5/31/1914, at 10 & in RGVP, Carton 22, Folder 7 (with FF’s handwritten comments: “Think of the opportunity of living that down.”) (emphasis in original).
64
South Station: FFR Transcript, 6/27/1957, at 6, FFLC, Box 205.
64
Few people: FF to Alfred Mitchell-Innes, 11/7/1914, at 1, FFLC, Box 30.
CHAPTER 6: NOT BRANDEIS’S FIGHT, BUT OUR FIGHT
65
Langdell Hall: HCrim, 9/26/1907; https://hls.harvard.edu/library/about-the-library/history-of-the-harvard-law-school-library/.
65
Frederick W. Taylor: FFR Transcript, 6/27/1957, at 6.
65
Rose Schneiderman: FF to MRC, 7/23/1914, in Leonora Cohen Rosenfield, Portrait of a Philosopher, 243 (1962).
65
Beverly Farms: FF to ERB, circa 7/1914, FFLC, Box 30.
65
Roosevelt & “all in books”: FF to ERB, circa 8/1914, id.
65
“scared”: FFR, 86.
65
In the fall: Harvard Law School Catalog 1914–1915, at 6–8.
66
“happy”: FF to ERB, circa 7/1914 (“happy family”).
66
“wild”: Thayer to RP, 8/24/1915, at 4, RPP, Pt. I, Reel 13, Page 875.
66
“exhilarating”: FF to MD, 10/4/1914, at 1, FFLC, Box 6.
66
“those boys”: FF to MD, 10/4/1914, at 1.
66
socialized: Recollection of Robert Porter Patterson by Chauncey Belknap, COH, 4/27/1960 (1961), at 12, & Belknap, COH, 4/29/1975, at 7.
66
memorable group: “Rank List,” 1915, FFHLS, Pt. III, Reel 19, Page 646.
66
“the ablest”: FF to Mrs. Ezra Thayer, 1/7/1916, “Third Year Men,” at 1, Frankfurter SMC, HLSSC.
66
regaled them: Belknap Diary, 10/7/1915, in Todd. C. Pepper et al., “Clerking for God’s Grandfather: Chauncey Belknap’s Year with Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.,” Journal of Supreme Court History 43 (2018): 257, 263.
66
twelfth: 1916 Grades, FFHLS, Pt. III, Reel 19, Page 636.
66
never forgave: Jordan A. Schwarz, Liberal, 14–15 (1987).
67
“You Learn”: Francis T. P. Plimpton, “In Personam,” at 9, 1924, Plimpton Papers, HLSSC, Box 1, Folder 1-3.
67
student notes: Charles P. Curtis Class Notes, HLSSC, Box 1, Folder 1 (criminal law 1915); John Raeburn Green Class Notes, HLS, Box 2 (public utilities 1915) & Box 3 (criminal law 1915).
67
treating utilities: FF, “The Utilities Bureau,” Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 1/1915, at 293–94.
67
“live” & “an inspiring”: The Independent, 3/22/1915, at 419. See ERB, Typescript, FFLC, Box 30 & FF to ERB, 3/29/1915, id. (ERB as ghostwriter of Independent article).
67
casebook: FF, “Prefatory Note,” A Selection of Cases under the Interstate Commerce Act, iii (1915).
67
New Republic: TNR, 11/7/1914, at 3.
67
2:00 a.m.: WL COH, at 54 & WL, Public Persons, 100 (1976).
67
875: “A Review of the Growth and Prospects of the New Republic,” 8/1916, at 1, Straight Papers, Reel 5, Segment 4.
67
defended Roosevelt’s: TNR, 11/14/1914, at 7.
67
“a futile”: NYTM, 12/6/1914, at SM1.
68
“blindly”: TNR, 12/12/1914, at 5.
68
never spoke: WL, COH, at 55 & WL, “Notes for a Biography,” at 251.
68
“three anemic”: Alvin Johnson, Pioneer’s Progress, 245 (1952).
68
“disinterested”: TNR, 6/5/1915, at 109.
68
9000: “A Review of the Growth and Prospects of the New Republic,” 8/1916, at 1.
68
“indifference” & “antiquated”: FF to TR, 10/11/1915, at 4, TRP, Reel 201, Series 1, Image 723. See Salt Lake Telegram, 8/17/1915 at 9; Salt Lake Tribune, 8/17/1915, at 12 (similar comments).
68
blamed: TR to FF, 10/18/1915, id., Reel 359, Series 2, Image 310.
68–69
“demand” & “We must” & “find” & “fresh”: FF, “The Law and the Law Schools,” A.B.A. J. 1, no. 4 (October 1915): 536, 539–40.
69
Coppage: Coppage v. Kansas, 236 U.S. 1, 11 (1915).
69
thirteen: Id. at 47 n.2 (Day, J., dissenting).
69
“equality”: Id. at 27 (Holmes, J., dissenting). See FF to OWH, 1/27/1915, H-FF Corr., at 25–26.
69
Holmes raised: Frank v. Mangum, 237 U.S. 309, 346–47, 349 (1915) (Holmes, J., dissenting); Brad Snyder, The House of Truth, 116–18 (2017).
69
Brandeis: LDB to RP, 11/27/1914, 3 LLDB at 373.
69
urged: TNR, 4/24/1915, at 290.
69
Frank wrote: Leo Frank to OWH, 7/10/1915, at 2, OWHP, Reel 31, Page 364, Box 43, Folder 2.
69
“A man”: Memorandum of talk with FF, 8/10/1964, at 1, MDHP, Box 22, Folder 26.
70
most prominent: Steve Oney, And the Dead Shall Rise, 339–42, 513–28, 560–71 (2003).
70
“a judge”: TNR, 1/30/1915, at 4.
70
“we only”: FF, A Selection of Cases under the Interstate Commerce Act, i.
70
“brilliant”: FF, “The Constitutional Opinions of Justice Holmes,” 29 Harv. L. Rev. 683, 698 (1916).
70
shocked: Gus Karger to WHT, 1/29/1916, WHTP, Reel 162, Series 3.
70
spellbinding: William Hitz to FF, 12/17/1914, LDB-Louisville, Reel 119; Charles Warren to FF, 4/6/1939, FFLC, Box 127.
70
“temperamentally”: NYT, 1/31/1916, at 18.
70
overjoyed: FF to KL, 1/27/1916, at 1, FFLC, Box 79; FF to LH, 1/30/1916, at 1–2, LHP, Box 104A, Folder 104-5; FF to WL, 2/2/1916, at 2, WLP, Reel 9, Box 10, Folder 419.
70–71
“who are” & “one of the great” & “has offended” & “inevitable” & “believes” & “the spirit”: FF to Cosmos Club, 1/19/1915, at 1–2, FFLC, Box 26.
71
“highest”: Wilson to Cosmos Club, 2/1/1915, 32 WWP, at 167.
71
partisan: FF to Editor of BET, 1/28/1916, FFLC, Box 26.
71
Boston Post: WP, 2/3/1916, at 5; FF to Norman Hapgood, 2/5/1916, FFLC, Box 128.
71
Edward H. Warren: LDB to Edward McClennen, 3/14/1916, FFLC, Box 128.
71–72
“One public” & “pure” & “the concerns” & “nation-wide” & “the final” & “given” & “a mind” & “no doctrinaire”: TNR, 2/5/1916, at 4–6.
72
February 17: WL to FF, 2/18/1916, at 1, PPWL at 37 & WLP, Reel 9, Box 10, Folder 419.
72
“the fight”: FF to WL, n.d. 1916, at 3, WLP, Reel 9, Box 10, Folder 419.
72
“It is terribly”: FF to JWM, 1/31/1916, FFLC, Box 81.
72
“The other night”: FF to WL, 3/20/1916, at 1, WLP, Reel 164, Box 1, Folder 29. See FF to KL, 2/16/1916, at 3, FFLC, Box 79 (similar comments).
72
“half brother”: LDB to FF, 9/24/1925, HBHS, 212. Cf. LDB to MD, 11/3/1919, FFLC, Box 26 (describing them as “half son, half brother”).
73
“In good truth”: TNR, 3/4/1916, at 119.
73
Samuel Warren: William H. Dunbar to FF, 2/1/1916, FFLC, Box 128.
73
“Somerset Club”: Chart, 3/2/1916, Straight Papers, Reel 5, Segment 3 & FFLC, Box 128.
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Willard Straight: Croly to Straight, 3/2/1916, Straight Papers, Reel 5, Segment 3.
73
“group” & “the most”: TNR, 3/11/1916, at 139.
73
“the last”: TNR, 3/18/1916, at 165.
73
“had collapsed”: TNR, 3/25/1916, at 202.
73
home: FF to OWH, 3/5/1916, H-FF Corr., at 46 (call home).
73
pneumonia & Mount Hebron: Leopold Frankfurter Death Certificate, 3/7/1916, FFLC, Box 18.
74
$125: Leopold Frankfurter Probate Record, Bronx County, NY, 4/8/1916, at 2.
74
“Yes”: FF to ERB, 3/1916, FFLC, Box 30. See BG, 1/8/1939, at C4 (quoting brother Paul Frankfurter about their father: “He tried to make a living all his life. It was pathetic. He never did.”).
74
He was teaching: Harvard Law School Catalog, 1915–1916, at 6–7.
74
“inadequately” & “governed” & “common” & “cut” & “epoch making”: FF, “Hours of Labor and Realism in Constitutional Law,” 29 Harv. L. Rev. 353, 365, 369–71 (1916).
75
House of Truth: Belknap Diary, 4/11/1916; FF to KL, 4/15/1916, at 3, FFLC, Box 79.
75
letter: BET, 5/10/1916, Pt. 2, at 2.
75
Lowell: FF to LH, 1/4/1916, at 1, LHP, Box 104A, Folder 104-5.
75
Roscoe Pound: RP to Sen. William E. Chilton, n.d., LDB Nomination Hearings, Vol. 2, at 251–52 (1916).
75
Eliot: Charles W. Eliot to Sen. Charles Culberson, 5/17/1916, id. at 241–42.
75
Arthur Dehon Hill’s: FF to LH, circa 5/11/1916, at 1–2, LHP, Box 104A, Folder 104-6.
75
“poor”: FF to LH, circa 4/25/1916, at 2, id.
75
Fox: FF to LH, circa 4/20/1916, at 2, id.
75
“Brandeis”: FF to KL, 5/12/1916, at 1–2, FFLC, Box 79.
75
lay low: FF to WL, 5/4/1916, FFLC, Box 128.
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“character” & “exceptionally”: WW to Culberson, 5/5/1916, 36 WWP at 609–11.
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no longer: FF to LH, circa 5/15/1916, at 1, LHP, Box 104A, Folder 104-6.
75
party loyalty: Alpheus Thomas Mason, Brandeis, 502–4 (1946); Melvin I. Urofsky, Louis D. Brandeis, 457–58 (2009); A. L. Todd, Justice on Trial, 230–31, 238–41 (1964); 53 Cong. Rec. 9032 (1916).
75
“Felix’s judgments”: RGV to Marie Christie, 6/12/1916, RGV, Carton 9, Folder 5.
75
“The Brandeis” & “Mr. Brandeis’s”: TNR, 6/10/1916, at 134.
76
Shelton Hale: OWH to FF, 1/29/1916, H-FF Corr., at 45; FF to MD, 4/29/1916, at 1–2, FFLC, Box 5.
76
“The lad”: OWH to FF, 3/27/1917, H-FF Corr., at 70.
76
tied for sixth: “Rank List,” 1916; FF to Mrs. Ezra Thayer, 1/7/1916, “Third Year Men,” at 1; BP, 9/30/1916, at 7.
76
“very helpful”: LDB to FF, 12/1/1916, 3 LLDB at 268.
76
institutionalized: FF to LH, 12/22/1914, LHP, Box 104A, Folder 104-3; Brad Snyder, “The Judicial Genealogy (and Mythology) of John Roberts,” 71 Ohio St. L.J. 1149, 1162–66 (2010).
76
“Everything”: “Justice Felix Frankfurter’s Contribution to the BBC’s Harold Laski Programme,” British Broadcasting Corporation, 11/15/1961, at 1, FFLC, Box 207 & FF, Of Law and Life and Other Things That Matter, 218 (Philip B. Kurland, ed. 1965).
76
“Oxford”: FF to MD, 6/26/1916, at 7–8, FFLC, Box 5.
76
American tennis: OWH to Frederick Pollock, 2/18/1917, 1 H-P Letters at 243; FF, Foreword, 1 HLL, at xv (“Good talkers are apt to embellish their tales and Laski’s stories often gained in the telling.”).
77
raised money: FF to KL, 1/27/1916, at 1–2, FFLC, Box 79; FF to LH, 1/22/1916, at 1–3, LHP, Box 104A, Folder 104-5.
77
Theodore Roosevelt: FF to ERB, 1/26/1916, FFLC, Box 30.
77
“I am”: WL to FF, 1/17/1916, at 1, WLP, Reel 9, Box 10, Folder 419 & PPWL, 33–34.
77
Hughes: FF to TR, 6/28/1916, TRP, Reel 212, Series 1, Image 122.
77
Adamson Act: FF to TR, 9/8/1916, at 1–2, TRP, Reel 214, Series 1, Image 339; BH, 10/9/1916, in FFLC, Box 194.
78
“Surely”: FF, “The Election of 1916,” at 22, FFLC, Box 204.
78
liked Hughes: FF to MRC, 10/3/1916, in Rosenfield, Portrait of a Philosopher, 247–48.
78
snubbed: Merlo J. Pusey, Charles Evans Hughes, Vol. 1, 335–49 (1951).
78
Around midnight: SFV, 11/16/1916, at 3–5, RGVP, Box 2, Folder 8; Dr. Herman M. Adler to SFV, 11/16/1916, at 2, id., Carton 15, Folder 20; NYH, 11/15/1916, at 5.
78
“Poor”: FF to LDB, 11/15/1916 tel., LDB-Louisville, Reel 47.
78
“With love”: FF, 11/14/16, RGVP, Carton 15, Folder 23.
78
Roosevelt & pallbearers: TR to SFV, 11/16/1916, RGVP, Carton 15, Folder 20; BET, 11/17/1916, at 1.
78
“You will”: FF to OWH, 11/16/1916, H-FF Corr., at 60.
79
250: BG, 1/8/1917, at 9 (250 to 300).
79
“We have” & “asked” & “not only” & “Surely”: Remarks of Felix Frankfurter in Presiding at the Memorial Meeting to Robert G. Valentine at Faneuil Hall, 1/7/1917, at 1–2, FFLC, Box 188 & RGVP, Box 2, Folder 15.
79
“Valentine was”: FF, “Robert Grosvenor Valentine ’96,” Harvard Alumni Bulletin, Vol. 19, No. 12, 12/14/1916, at 228, 230. See FF, “Valentine, Robert Grosvenor,” Dictionary of American Biography, Vol. 19, 142–43 (1936); Snyder, House of Truth, 147–57.
80
Oregon’s attorney general: George M. Brown to James D. Maher, 10/3/1916, Bunting v. Oregon Clerk’s Office File, NARA, RG 267, Box 4641, Appellate Case File 24346; Josephine Goldmark to Maher, 9/1/1916, id.; Maher to Goldmark, 9/6/1916, id.; Goldmark to Maher, 10/13/1916, id.; Maher to Goldmark, 10/14/1916, id.; Goldmark to Brown, Goldmark to Joseph N. Teal, 10/17/1916 tels., FFLC, Box 128; Brown to FF, 10/18/1916 tel., id.
