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Felix Frankfurter - A Biography ' . r BY ig. :il HAROLD J. LASKI 3 Professor of Political Science i ' F' University of London t 'F ELIX F RANKFURTER was born in Vienna fifty-seven years ago, and came to the United States when he was twelve years of age. He gradu- ated from the City College of New York in 1902, and from the Harvard Law School, where he was an editor of the Law Review, in 1906. After a brief period with a New York law firm, he became Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York in 1907, under Mr. H. L. Stimsong in that capacity, he played a leading part in the prosecution of Morse and those concerned in the well-known Sugar Fraud cases of that epoch. When Mr. Stimson became Secretary of War, under President Taft, Mr. Frankfurter accom- panied him to Washington in the capacity of legal adviser to the Department. In 19141 he was offered, and accepted, a professorship at the Harvard Law School. There he remained, save for the years 1917-19, until his appointment to the Supreme Court of the United States in January, 1939. Mr. Frankfurter's war record was notable. At first, he was assistant to Mr. Newton D. Baker, the Secretary of War, and in that capacity he was entrusted by President Wilson with a diplomatic mission to Europe of great importance and delicacy. In 1918, President Wilson transferred him to the chairmanship of the newly created War 'Labor Policies Board, as its chairman he was responsible for framing the principles underlying labor conditions throughout the United States in the war. He acted also as counsel for the President's Industrial Mediation Com- mission of 1918, of which Mr. W. B. Wilson, then Secretary of Labor, was chairman. E91
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His well-known report for that commission on the Mooney case was largely instru- mental in the commutation of Mooney's sentence from the death penalty to life imprisonment. That report has been the basis of all subsequent investigations of the case, and may be said to have laid the foundations of the movement which led to Mooney's pardon by Governor Olson in 1939. Mr. Frankfurter returned to Harvard in 1919 with a secure national reputation. In the next twenty years, he has led a full life. His book, The Sacco-Vanzetti Case H9261 marked a decisive turning-point in the evolution of that tragic drama. He was active in the American Zionist movement. He played an important part in the Presidential campaigns of 1928 and 1932, and during President Roosevelt's terms of omce, as Governor of New' York, Mr. Frankfurter became his close adviser. Governor Ely of Massachusetts offered him a place on the Supreme Judicial Court of that State in 1932, but Professor Frankfurter refused it on the ground that he preferred to continue his teaching work at Harvard. In 1933, he w'as offered the Solicitor- Ceneralship of the United States by President Rooseveltg this great post, he also declined. In 1933-34, he was Eastman Professor at the University of Oxford, and the conferment upon him by that University of the honorary degree of Doctor of Civil Law in 1939 was generally acclaimed as a recognition of his remarkable success in that post. He has delivered the Dodge Lectures at Yale University CT he Public and Its Government, 19301 and the Weil Lectures at the University of North Carolina fThe Commerce Clause, 19371. His lectures on Mr. Justice Holmes were published in 1939 and are the best account, thus far published, of that great jurist's method. Mr. Frankfurter has also published standard volumes on the Labor Injlmction fwith Mr. Nathan Greene1 and on the Business of the Supreme Court fwith Dean James M. Landis1. He is the author of many articles in the Harvard and other law reviews. Few people have brought to the service of the Supreme Court an equipment so wide or so profound as Mr. Justice Frankfurter. He has been studying its problems all his adult life. He comes to them with not only the lawyer's training, but also with the administratoris special understanding of the horizons they create. The necessities of teaching-and he has been a great teacher-have enabled him also to see them fully in their juristic perspective. Long and intimate friendship with I101
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