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the Supreme Court bench from the
chief judgship of the New York State
Court Of Appeals
He was the second member of the
Jewish race to sit on the supreme
tribunal. The first was Justice Louis
D. Brandeis. appointed in 1915 by
President Wilson.
Justice Cardozo's written opinions
were noted for their crystalline clarity
and beauty of expression. He was re-
earded genarally as the literary stylist
OF the tribunal.
A bachelor, he had few social con-
eacts. While in Washington he lived
tn almost monastic seclusion.
Before he began his service here one
Of the expressions heard most fire.
quently in the Supreme Courtroom
was: Holmes, Brandeis and Stone
dissenting"
deis, Stone and Cardozo dissenting. j"
Formed Liberal Bloc.
The trio formed liberal" block
that disagreed with many Of the opin-
ions of their colleagues.
But during the term that began in
October. 1896. they found themselves
in. majority with Chief Justice
Hughes and Justice Roberts Their
views prevailed henceforth in most
eases involving administration legisla-
tion and activities.
The five anti-administration votes
east by the 68-year-old jurist were
against N. r. A., President Roosevelt's
dismissal Of the late William e.
Humphrey as member of the Fed
eral Trade Commission. the original
Farm Mortgage Moratorium Act, Fed
fral incorporation of building and
loan associations against State's s
wishes and refund to taxpayers Of
money collected under the Agricul-
tural Adjustment Act and impounded
in Federal courts.
When Justice Cardozo first came
to Washington he was hailed gener-
ally as liberal" as one inclined to
consider the ultimate aim of laul
rather than its strict application upon
the basis Of logical hair-splitting.
Utterances Typical.
In support of this view it was re-
called that in one Of his decisions in
the New York Court of Appeals, from
which bench he moved to the country's
highest tribunal, Justice Cardozo said,
In denying a technical appeal:
Rights and duties in systems of
living law are not based upon quick
sands"
In another public utterance he
said
I'VE are to beware of the insular-
lty Of mind that percieves in every IN:
road upon habit. a catastrophe revo-
luton
Justice Cardozo was born in New
York City May "a, 1870. His parents
were Judge Albert Cardozo and Re-
becca Washington Nathan Cardozo,
both Jews of old Spanish and Por-
tuguese lineage
Masters Degree at 20.
Their son had his education at Co.
lumbia University, studying liberal
arts. He received his A. B. degree in
1889 and his masters degree the fol-
lowing year when he was only 20
years old.
There goes the man who writes
the most powerful English of any Co.
lumbia student since Alexander HAM
ilton," one professor is reported to
have said Of Justice Cardozo while he
vas yet an undergraduate.
The future jurist did not 60 through
q law school, He read for his profess
sion with his liberal arts education
as . foundation and passed the New
York State bar examinations in 1891.
In practice he early became renowned
for his keenly analytical mind and
mitch of his work was as a lawyer s
.a lawyer" with appellate cases as his
special field.
An independent Democrat in poll
tics. he was elected in 1913 on q
Fusion ticket to the New York su-