Bingo! Justice James Clark McReynolds was the stick-in-the-mud FDR wished to have disappeared from the court. This journalist observed that McReynolds “seemed to regard himself as the last Bulwark of a social order which Woodrow Wilson deemed too antiquated in 1914”. Indeed, he was cranky and crusty and disliked Jews and black people equally and didn’t seem to care who knew it.
Oldest and most consistently liberal of the justices is Louis Brandeis. Together with the three younger members of the court – Roberts, Cardozo and Stone – Brandeis has frequently seen eye to eye with the objectives of the present administration.
Attached is a three-and-a-half-page summation of Associate Justice George Sutherland and the various cases he heard while sitting on the U.S. Supreme Court.
“It has been pointed out that a number of cases in which Justice Hughes (1862 – 1948) sided with Liberals have involved civil liberties. On this phase of liberalism, Hughes has consistently upheld traditional American freedoms…”
“The latest large-scale effort to harness the sun is taking place at Tashkent, capital the Uzbek Soviet Republic of Central Asia, USSR. Near this city, Soviet scientists, according to Science Service, have been operating on kitchen, bath, and water-tower with power supplied by the sun…
An anonymous Philadelphia journalist, dumbstruck by the sudden death of FDR, compared the fallen president to Abe Lincoln because both were successful military leaders. He goes a step further by insisting that Walt Whitman’s famous ode to Lincoln is equally applicable for FDR.
During the closing days of the war in Europe, U.S. Representative Clinton P. Anderson (D. NM. 1890 – 1975) adhered to the many cries of his constituents and looked into the possibility that the American military had abused the trust placed in them concerning allocation of meat.
War Correspondent Ernie Pyle (1900 – 1945) earned his fame by writing about the American Army in North Africa, Italy and France. In April of 1945 he was embedded with the Marines when they invaded Okinawa. To his surprise, sharing foxholes with Marines in Asia was no different from sharing foxholes with GIs in Europe.
“The New York Herald Tribune thinks the New York Stock Exchange is partly to blame for the panicky selling of the worst days, because the inadequacy of its present ticker service kept shareholders so long in ignorance of the course of prices.”
Here is a printable chronology of the important events that occurred during 1864, the most decisive year of the American Civil War.
Attached is a printable chronology of the important events that occurred during 1865, the last year of the American Civil War.
On the fiftieth anniversary of the War Between the States, retired U.S Army General Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain (1828 – 1914) wrote about his experiences at the Battle of Little Round Top for the editors at Hearst’s Magazine.
Few Americans realize the deep concern which the Army exercises to determine the exact status of a man reported missing in action, and even fewer are aware of the many complexities that beset the endeavor to track down missing [personnel]… It may be observed, incidentally, that the men reported as ‘missing in action’ has a two-out-of-three chance of being alive, and of turning up eventually.
The red scribe who penned this article had no idea that the clock was ticking when it came to the USSR (it collapsed some twenty-three years later) and that the name Soviet Union would soon serve as the answer for assorted parlor games such as Trivial Pursuit. Nonetheless, the writer’s misplaced pride came bubbling forth in this column that celebrated their 50th year in existence.
Although this journalist couldn’t know it, she was writing one of the last corset reviews in fashion history. No doubt,
