Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-01-28
BRANDEIS IS NAMED
FOR SUPREME COURT
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November IL, 1856 He was educated in
the Louisville public schools and studied
in the Amen RealsChule, Dresden. from
1873 to 1878. He was graduated from the
Harvard Law School in 1877, admitted to
the bar the following year and has been
practiCng law in Boston ever since 1879.
Mr.. Brandeis has been counsel in many
cases of national Importance, politically
and otherwise. He is an honorary mem
her Of the Harvard chapter of the Phi
Beta Kappa Society and received the hon
orary degree Of master Of arts from that
university in 1891 He married Alice Gold
mark, of New York, March 23, 1891.
Mr.. Brandeis is perhaps best known
through his recent fight against the So
called New England railroad monopoly,
when he won the appellation. "the peo-
pies lawyer facing almost single
handed one of the largest aggregations OF
capital ever directed toward one purpose.
He is said 10 be proud of that one name,
the peoples lawyer"
IN FAMOUS LAUNDRY CASE.
His first work of public character was
in 1901, when he forced an aldermanic
investigation of certain charitable organ
izations and institutions and turned the
fee for the work over to charity He was
acclaimed nationally when he won the
merely a local issue. but a case affecting
the status of child and female labor
throughout the country.
He led the group of public-spirited Bos-
ton men which solved the Boston gas
problem, said to have been the worst in
the country, The gas company reduced
the price of gas from 81 to so cents and
conducted its business so that it was not
only satisfactory to its employees but TO
the public as well.
When an effort was under way to
smother charges by Louis Il. CLAWS
against Secretary of the Interior Balin-
ger. Brandeis handled the matter before
the Congressional Investigating Commit
tee, with the result of the retirement of
Balilnger. In this case he announced this
theory of special privilege:
at is the conception OF class-the con-
CcptiOn of privilege against the people
the belief that men In exalted positions
must be protected at all odds and that
the man who is merely a humble servant
of the Government has no rights which
must be respected"
INSURANCE VICTORY
He won n reduction in the price of in
dustrial insurance and won the confidence
of the labor unions in his dealings with
the labor problem.
Mr.. Brandeis is the recognized leader
of the Zionist movement, giving practical
strength to the dream of a Jerusalem re-
born for the scattered Jews,
He is an advocate of the theory that
one may serve outside Of public office
unhampered by the restrictions attending
the holding of Office, In the last l6 years
he is said to have refused many cases
for which he could have named his own
price. He lives simple, democratic life
with his family and books as his principal
recreation from business. He has never
owned an automobile
He is the author of many articles on
public franchises, life insurance, life in
surance for the small wage-earners, and
has become widely known through his
large contributions to legal reviews. He
is member of the Union, City and E'X-
change Clubs. Boston, and of the Harvard
Club in New York.