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distressed: FF to FDR, 10/3/1938, R&FF, 461–63.
297
draft wire: BVC to MLH, 10/13/1938, id. at 463.
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fawning letters: FF to FDR, 10/27/1938, id. at 463–64; FF to FDR, 11/25/1938, id. at 466.
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sponsored the publication: Charles C. Burlingham et al., The German Reich and Americans of German Origin, vii (1938).
297
“the President”: WES, 9/21/1938, at A-11.
297
“Mr. Roosevelt”: The Nation, 10/8/1938, at 339.
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“extraneous”: Akron Beacon Journal, 9/8/1938, at 17.
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“to express”: JWM to FDR, 10/5/1938, WAWP, Box C287.
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“give” & “only reinforce”: Kellogg to FDR, 10/10/1938, at 4, id. See FDR to Kellogg, 10/15/1938, id.
298
Calvin Coolidge: William Allen White, A Puritan in Babylon (1938).
298
“was”: Emporia Gazette, 1/6/1939, at 2.
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was determined: WAW to FWB, 7/30/1938, WAWP, Box C285.
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“the Supreme Court”: Kellogg to WAW, 9/12/1938, at 2, id., Box C287.
298
“Isaiah” & “It was”: JB to Norris, 8/10/1938, at 1, Norris Papers, Box 280.
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“the big” & “their head”: WAW to Kellogg, 9/16/1938, at 1, WAWP, Box C287. See WAW to Kellogg, 10/15/1938, id.
299
5:15 p.m.: FDR Day by Day, 10/8/1938.
299
“There’s something”: FFR, 279–80.
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“I want” & “very definite”: FFR, 280–81.
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frowned: Samuel R. Spencer, Jr., Notes of Int. FF GC Conversations, Summer 1947, at 8, FFHLS, Pt. III, Reel 15, Page 260.
299
western judges: FFR Transcript, 8/30/1957, at 386–89.
299
countryside & “circles”: NYHT, 10/9/1938, at 33.
299
“his old”: FFR, 281.
299
“inside track”: CT, 10/9/1938, at 11.
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“representative” & “private” & “a problem” & “Sorta”: FDR to WAW, 10/13/1938.
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“best”: Indiana Evening Gazette, 7/27/1938, at 4.
300
Murphy & Schwellenbach: NYHT, 11/13/1938, at 23.
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“too radical”: WES, 11/19/1938, at A-11.
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“left wing” & “dark horse”: WP, 11/13/1938, at M8.
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reviewed & “did not”: HSCD, 11/18/1938, HSCP, Reel 2, at 190–1. See HSC to FDR, 11/30/1938, FDRL, PSF, Ser. 4, Box 56, Pt. 2.
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“could be” & “the right” & “the country” & “I know”: HSCD, 11/18/1938.
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“for I” & “well conceived” & “lucid”: FF to FDR, 11/17/1938 & Memorandum on Judge William Healy at 1 & Memorandum on Judge Albert Stephens at 2–3, FDRL, PSF, Ser. 5, Box 135.
301
Not even: NYT, 11/11/1938, at 1. See Martin Gilbert, Kristallnacht (2006); The Night of Broken Glass (Uta Gerhardt & Thomas Karlauf, eds. 2012).
301
“Even if”: FF to HI, 11/29/1938, HI, Secret Diary of Harold L. Ickes: The Inside Struggle: 1936–1939, at 391–93; HID, 5/15/1938, id. at 396–99; FFLC, Box 69.
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helium: HID, 5/15/1938; HI, Secret Diary of Harold L. Ickes: The Inside Struggle: 1936-1939, at 391-93; HID, 5/15/1938, id. at 396-99; NYT, 7/22/1938, at 9; NYT, 12/17/1938, at 8.
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“in the lead” & “since both”: HID, 11/19/1938; HI, Secret Diary of Harold L. Ickes: The Inside Struggle: 1936-1939, at 505.
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“We who”: NYT, 10/2/1938, at 1.
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more complicated: R&FF, 372.
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“up”: TGC, “Rendezvous with Democracy,” Chapter X – Page 35, TGCP, Box 586.
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“pressure” & “make” & “incensed” & “the Corcoran-Cohen”: Binghamton Press, 12/2/1938, at 6.
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“the New Deal” & “like the” & “merely”: WES, 12/8/1938, at A-13.
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advised & revealed: LDB to FF, 10/16/1938, HBHS, at 620; LDB to FF, 10/24/1938, id. at 621; LDB to FF, 11/23/1938, id. at 623.
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“will eventually” & “No”: FF to HJL, 5/25/1938, at 2, FFLC, Box 74. Cf. FF to “Boys,” 5/17/[1938], at 2, TGCP, Box 198 (“I don’t take any stock in the L.D.B. retirement talk – or should I”).
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back trouble & memorial resolution: RHJ to FF, 10/28/1938, RHJP, Box 81, Folder 6; FF to RHJ, 11/25/1938, id.
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his book: FF, Mr. Justice Holmes and the Supreme Court (1938).
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battleship: INB to TGC, 5/2/1963, INBP, Box 5; TGC to INB, 8/27/1936, id.; INB, Storm over the Constitution (1936).
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consultant to Ickes: HID, 1/7/1939, Reel 3, at 3151 & HI, Secret Diary of Harold L. Ickes: The Inside Struggle: 1936–1939, at 550–51.
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Rutledge: INB to FDR, 11/12/1938, INBP, Box 13.
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“because”: INB to Max Freedman, 1/22/1969, id., Box 6.
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“pressure” & “closest” & “the western”: INB to Ralph Fuchs, 12/31/1938, at 1, id., Box 7.
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kept Rutledge apprised: INB to WBR, 11/12/1938, id., Box 13; WBR to INB, 11/22/1938, id.; INB to WBR, 12/27/1938, at 1–2, id.; STLST, 9/6/1938, at 14; STLST, 10/4/1938, at 14.
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“Cummings”: INB to WBR, 1/14/1939, INBP, Box 13.
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“appeared”: BaltSun, 12/10/1938, at 1.
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Winchell: Logansport Pharos-Tribune, 12/13/1938, at 5.
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“the matter” & “I thought” & “How did” & “I told” & “as a possibility”: HSCD, 12/18/1938, HSCP, Reel 2, at 248–49.
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“need not” & “Yes”: Id. at 249.
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Stephens’s judicial opinions: Parrish, Citizen Rauh, 48 (based on August 17, 1985, int. with JLR).
304
lunch: FDR Day by Day, 12/16/1938.
304
“friends”: BG, 12/27/1938, at 1.
304
“no longer” & “the inside”: NYHT, 12/27/1938, at 2.
304
Schwellenbach: TNR, 12/21/1938, at 200.
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“[l]argely”: Nevada State Journal, 12/30/1938, at 4.
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“pretended”: BG, 12/27/1938, at 1.
305
lunch: FDR Day by Day, 12/21/1938.
305
“We discussed”: JAFD, 12/21/1938, at 2, JAFP, Reel 4, Box 43.
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private dinner: FDR Day by Day, 12/28/1938.
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“having” & “In the first” & “belonged” & “not up” & “very much” & “had given” & “made”: JAFD, 12/28/1938, at 3–5, JAFP, Reel 4, Box 43. Cf. JAF, Jim Farley’s Story, 161–62 (1948) (for revised comments & FDR quote that “Felix Frankfurter wants to go on in the worst way,” which does not appear in the diary).
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“was qualified”: FFR, 282.
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should nominate Frankfurter: WBR to INB, 11/22/1938, at 1–2, INBP, Box 13. See STLST, 12/28/1938, at 2; STLST, 12/29/1938, at 14; John M. Ferren, Salt of the Earth, 137–50, 157 (2004).
306
2:00 p.m.: FDR Day by Day, 12/29/1938.
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“was a legal” & “But will” & “If you” & “really” & “another”: HID, 1/1/1939; HI, Secret Diary of Harold L. Ickes: The Inside Struggle: 1936–1939, at 539–40.
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“stupid” & “told her”: HID, 1/1/1939, id. at 540.
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“the whole thing”: HID, 1/7/1939, Reel 3, at 3151. See Kathryn Smith, The Gatekeeper, 124 (2016).
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nightly phone calls: Parrish, Felix Frankfurter and His Times, 275 & Parrish, Citizen Rauh, 48 (based on August 12, 1975, int. & August 17, 1985, int. with JLR); JLR Int. with Lash, 6/10/1986, Lash Papers, Box 65, Folder 2.
307
“so disgusted”: HID, 1/1/1939, Reel 3, at 3126.
307
three hours: FDR Day by Day, 12/29/1938.
307
“a chance”: HID, 1/2/1939, Reel 3, at 3140–41.
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Hopkins and Jackson: FDR Day by Day, 12/31/1938.
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“was on”: RHJ, “Lunch at the White House on Saturday, Dec. 31, 1938,” at 1, 3–4, RHJP, Box 81, Folder 3.
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“that all” & “notion” & “the President’s” & “looked” & “the future” & “importance” & “leave me” & “said it” & “joined” & “agreed”: RHJ, “Lunch at the White House on Saturday, Dec. 31, 1938,” 4–5. See Eugene C. Gerhart, America’s Advocate, 163–67 (1958); RHJ COH, 637, RHJP, Box 190, Folder 5; RHJ, That Man (John Q. Barrett, ed. 2003).
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“This appointment”: HID, 1/2/1939. See Evatt to FDR, 11/11/1938, 1–3, FDRL, PSF, Ser. 4, Box 56, “Folder Homer Cummings 1938–44” Pt. 2 & Gerhart, America’s Advocate, 157 (note from Australian High Court justice H. V. “Bert” Evatt arguing for FF’s appointment).
308
“The Frankfurter”: RHJ, “Monday, January 2, 1939: Murphy Ceremony,” at 1, RHJP, Box 81, Folder 3.
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“lingered”: Id.
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“his influence” & “urge” & “told”: Id. at 1–2. See Norris to FDR, 12/27/1938, at 2, RHJP, Box 81, Folder 3 (arguing it would be “a great mistake” if the president did not appoint RHJ as attorney general).
308
4:30 p.m.: FDR Day by Day, 1/2/1939.
308
“strongly urged”: HID, 1/7/1939. See HJL to Norris, 1/6/1939, Norris Papers, Box 280; Dilliard to Norris, 1/21/1939, id. (crediting Norris).
308
“mildly ruffled”: NYT, 1/4/1939, at 26.
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tea: RHJ, “Monday, January 2, 1939: Murphy Ceremony,” at 2; FDR Day by Day, 1/2/1939.
309
Cardozo: HFS to George Hellman, 11/30/1939, at 1, HFSP, Box 16.
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“get” & “will get” & “a man”: HID, 1/7/1939, Reel 3, at 3152–53 & HI, Secret Diary of Harold L. Ickes: The Inside Struggle: 1936–1939, at 551–52.
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“felt”: HID, 1/7/1938, HI, Secret Diary of Harold L. Ickes: The Inside Struggle: 1936–1939, at 552.
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Ickes & Murphy: FDR Day by Day, 1/3/1939.
309
“would go”: HID, 1/7/1938, Reel 3, at 3153.
309
“the most important”: INB to Dilliard, 1/24/1939, INBP, Box 5.
309
“a compromise” & “Stephens Expected”: CT, 1/3/1939, at 2.
309
“the orthodox” & “is out”: BG, 1/3/1939, at 1, 11.
309
“the inside”: NYT, 1/3/1939, at 13.
310
“confident” & “still”: NYHT, 1/4/1939, at 6A.
310
“to the fore”: WP, 1/4/1939, at 1.
310
“eminently”: HSCD, 1/4/1939, HSCP, Reel 2, at 4.
310
“If”: Atlantic News-Telegraph, 1/11/1939, at 2 (Pearson & Allen).
310
“There are”: HSCD, 1/4/1939, HSCP, Reel 2, at 4.
310
12:45 p.m. & 2:00 p.m. & 4:15 p.m.: FDR Day by Day, 1/4/1939. Alsop and Kintner may have known—because they dined at 7:30 p.m. with FDR, a half-hour after FDR’s call to FF. Id.
310
“Please” & “I told” & “Yes” & “You’ve” & “But wherever” & “insurmountable”: FFR, 282–84, 288.
310
“moved”: FF to FDR, 1/4/1939, FDRL, PSF, Ser. 5, Box 135. See FF to CCB, 7/8/1942, at 1, FFLC, Box 35.
310
“Marion”: FFR, 284.
310
in the dark: JAFD, 1/5/1939, JAFP, Reel 4, Box 43; JAF, Jim Farley’s Story, 163.
311
longhand: FDR, 1/6/1936, LC P&P, LC-H22-D-5399.
311
“I have done it”: WAW to Kellogg, 1/7/1939, FFLC, Box 227 (enclosing FDR to WAW, 1/5/1939 tel., 11:40 a.m.).
311
newswires & shocked: HSCD, 1/5/1939, HSCP, Reel 2, at 6 (noting he and FM learned of it from the “ticker”); JAFD, 1/5/1939; Atlantic News-Telegraph, 1/11/1939, at 2.
311
blamed Corcoran: HMS to HSC, 3/2/1939, at 2–3.
311
“We were”: HID, 1/7/1939, HI, Secret Diary of Harold L. Ickes: The Inside Struggle: 1936–1939, at 552.
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“Even though”: Minneapolis Star, 1/6/1939, at 16.
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“Says”: FF to FDR, 1/6/1939 tel., R&FF, 483–84.
313
retired army colonel: Testimony of Col. Latham R. Reed, 12/8/1938, Investigation of Un-American Propaganda Activities, Vol. 4, 75th Cong., 3rd Sess., at 2985–86; NYT, 12/9/1938, at 10.
313
first modern: Lori A. Ringhand, “Aliens on the Bench: Lessons in Identity, Race and Politics from the First ‘Modern’ Supreme Court Confirmation Hearing to Today,” 2010 Mich. St. L. Rev. 795, 835.
314
“this is” & “an office” & “duty”: FF Hearings at 1–2.
314
“in person”: Neely to FF, 1/7/1939 tel., FFHLS, Pt. III, Reel 23, Page 740.
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if needed: FF to Neely, 1/7/1939 tel., id. at 741. See DA to FF, 1/8/1939 tel., id. at Page 742; CCB to FF, 1/8/1939 tel., id.; FF to CCB, 1/8/1939 tel., at 1–2, CCBP, Box 5, Folder 5-1; WP, 1/8/1939, at 1.
314
Tall and handsome: DA, Morning and Noon, 161–94 (1965).
315
“the oddest”: DA to Rublee, 1/17/1939, at 1–2, DAP, Reel 17, Box 27, Folder 340 & in Among Friends at 37 (David S. McLellan & David C. Acheson, eds. 1980). See DA, Morning and Noon, 201; Notes on Redd, Sullivan, & Cooper testimony, DAP, Reel 44, Folder 171.
315
“an American” & “too old” & “Are you” & “Then why” & “interest in” & “corresponds”: FF Hearings at 3–7.
315
loyalty oaths: WES, 2/21/1937, at A-1.
315
Dies & Red-hunting: WES, 11/18/1938, at A-30; WES, 12/16/1938, at 12; WES, 6/15/1949, at B-1.
315
gripped: Sullivan photograph, 1/10/1939, LC P&P, LC-H22-D-5454.
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“Mr. Frankfurter’s” & “a number” & “based”: FF Hearings at 9–10, 12, 21. See WES, 1/11/1939, at A-10.
316
“proper” & “I think”: FF Hearings at 26.
316
“lost”: Minneapolis Star, 1/11/1939, at 18.
316
“cranks”: CT, 1/11/1939, at 4.
316
“This pitiful”: Minneapolis Star, 1/11/1939, at 18.
316
suburban Chicago: Glen Jeansonne, Women of the Far Right, 10–28 (1996); Geoffrey S. Smith, To Save a Nation (1973); Stasia Von Zwisler, “Elizabeth Dilling and the Rose-Colored Spyglass, 1931–1942” (MA thesis, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 1987).
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an entry: Elizabeth Dilling, The Red Network, 282 (1934).
316
“one of that clique”: Elizabeth Dilling, The Roosevelt Red Record and Its Background, 80–81 (1936).
316
“as an American”: FF Hearings at 29–30.
316
blue and gold: Dilling photograph, 1/11/1939, LC P&P, LC-H22-D-5468; STLPD, 1/12/1939, at 11.
316
“comely” & “fast” & “a high”: NYHT, 1/12/1939, at 10A.
317
“that Felix Frankfurter” & “worked”: FF Hearings at 29–30.
317
“prejudice” & “a communist”: FF Hearings at 30–33.
317
“Communist supporter” & “socialistic” & “ ‘red’ ” & “The history”: FF Hearings at 33–34.
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“Frankfurter was”: FF Hearings at 35–36.
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