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Supreme Court, once said of bany to argue before the Court a farmer and decided to have Marshall. Then lifting his glass,
Marshall that he had trans-. of Appeals. Wandering aimless- a little sport with him.
he dropped the rube role and
The hundreth anniversary of lated himself into a kind of
"How's crops down your way, drank to them, saying, he had
ly
in
the
lobby
of
the
hotel
the birth of Louis Marshall is
taken them for gentlemen and
waiting for his case to come stranger?" they asked.
being marked now. Not many
they had taken him for a rube,
up,
he
strayed
into
an
ante-
"Fair
to
middlin',"
replied
lawyers have their centennials
they were both mistaken.
room where a convivial party Marshall, playing along,
observed unless they turned
was in progress. Seeing Mar-
So it went for some time,
into office holders and states-
shall — he was indifferent in until they asked him to have
Means are always in our pOw-
men. Louis Marshall was a
dress — his trousers perhaps a drink.
er; ends are very seldom so.
great Constitutional lawyer
too high up, they thought . him ) "Don't mind if I do," said
—Fielding
who might have been an orna-
ment to the Supreme Court,
but he never held any public
office.
Justice Benjamin Cardozo, a
Jew who was named to the

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!For a

LOUIS MARSHALL

Happy New Year

public institution. Sometimes
Marshall was dubbed "the
Jewish Pope." Israel Zangwill
described American Jews as
living under "Marshall law."
The worst thing I ever heard
1514 Washington said of Marshall was that in
Blvd. private conversation he some-
times swore like a trooper.
Dress Your Best! Perhaps that too was a good
For the Holidays' point, emanating from that
"moral indignation" so often
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associated with the Hebrew
prophets.
We need some good swearer
like Marshall. I Wonder how
Marshall would have reacted
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to these days when the oil of
Saudi Arabia reaches into the
State Department to belie the
For a Happy New Year
idealistic traditions of an
earlier America.
Marshall was not afraid to
stand up to the highest.
When Russia refused to
honor the passports of Amer-
ican Jewish citizens who de-
sired to travel in Russia, (a
far lesser offense than Saudi
Arabia's refusal to have any
American Jewish soldiers
visit her) Marshall demanded
that President Taft abrogate
the treaty with Russia. Taft
refused, but under the lead-
ership of Marshall and Jacob
Schiff, a fight was waged.
and Congress revoked the
treaty.
Marshall and Schiff were in
New Year
the forefront of the fight
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against restrictions on Jewish
immigration. It was seldom ad-
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mitted that the laws were di-
rected againt Jews. They would
reduce the labor standards, it
was charged (the' fact is that
the Jewish labor unions raised
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sharp in those days, but
Marshall, American born of
German stock, bridged it. He
learned to read the Yiddish
papers and so identified him-
self with their fortunes that
those of East European de-.
rivation regarded him as
their spokesman.
Several volumes of Mar-
shall's letters are shortly to be
published. These have been ex-
cerpted from archives of some
ten times their number. If the
whole were published, it would
probably constitute the most
comprehensive account of the
very important period when
the American Jewish commu-
nity was being built up.
For a constitutional lawyer
and a battler for Jewish rights,
Marshall had a strange hobby
—forestry. He was chairman of
the board of the Forestry
School at the University of
Syracuse and the forestry
school of Syracuse now bears
R. R. TOB I N
his name.
Deep down in him he must
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have been a man of the soil as
one of the anecdotes about
Detroit, Mich.
him suggests. The story is told

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53-THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS—Friday, S eptember '7, 1956

U. S. Jewry Plans to Observe Centennial of Louis Marshall's Birth

