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 Harlan Fiske Stone - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Harlan Fiske Stone (October 11, 1872 – April 22, 1946) was an American lawyer and jurist who served as the dean of Columbia Law School, Attorney General of the United States, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court and later Chief Justice of the United States.
Stone was the director of the Atlanta and Charlotte Air Line Railroad Company, the President of the Association of American Law Schools, and a member of the American Bar Association.
Justice Stone is the father of the mathematician Marshall Stone.
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 Harlan Fiske Stone Biography | Encyclopedia of World Biography
Harlan Fiske Stone (1872-1946), as chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, at first could not be classified either as conservative or liberal but finally stood with the liberal justices.
Harlan Fiske Stone was born in Chesterfield, N.H., on Oct. 11, 1872.
Harlan's father was a farmer, and the sons did the typical farm chores.
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 stone - definition by dict.die.net
Note: Stone is used adjectively or in composition with other words to denote made of stone, containing a stone or stones, employed on stone, or, more generally, of or pertaining to stone or stones; as, stone fruit, or stone-fruit; stone-hammer, or stone hammer; stone falcon, or stone-falcon.
Stone age, a supposed prehistoric age of the world when stone and bone were habitually used as the materials for weapons and tools; -- called also flint age.
Stone's cast, or Stone's throw, the distance to which a stone may be thrown by the hand.
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 Chief Justice Stone
Stone made such a favorable impression upon the Senators that he was confirmed by a vote of 71 to 6.
Stone shouldered his part of the work, and during his five years as chief, he wrote 145 opinions (more per term than any of the other justices), 96 of which were for the Court.
Stone's insistence that the justices should be controlled by an informed sense of judicial self‑restraint was just as applicable to the new liberal Court as it had been to the old conservative Court.
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 Stone biography
His father, Harlan Fiske Stone, was a distinguished lawyer who served as dean of Columbia Law school from 1910 to 1923 and was on the supreme court for 21 years, serving as chief justice for the last five of these from 1941 to 1946.
One particularly important result proved by Stone during this period was a substantial generalisation of Weierstrass's theorem on uniform approximation of continuous functions by polynomials.
Stone won the argument, the offer was made to Whitney, but he turned it down preferring to remain at Harvard.
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 Harlan Fiske Stone
Harlan Fiske Stone was born in New Hampshire on October 11, 1872.
Stone quickly became one of the dissenters on the Court, often joining Oliver Wendell Holmes and Louis D. Brandeis.
Stone remained Chief Justice until his death on April 22, 1946, which is the shortest term as Chief Justice in over 200 years.
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 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Harlan Fiske Stone
Chief Justice Harlan Fiske Stone, described the Nuremberg court as "a high-grade lynching party" for Germans (Alpheus T. Mason, Harlan Fiske Stone: Pillar of the Law, New York: Viking, 1956, p.
In 1946, at the age of 73, Stone died of a cerebral hemorrhage that struck while he was on the bench reading his dissent in the case of Girouard v.
To date, Justice Stone is the only justice to have physically filled all nine seats on the bench, having incrementally moved "seniority" positions from most junior Associate Justice to most senior Associate Justice and finally to Chief Justice.
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 Harlan Fiske Stone
Distinguished jurist Harlan Fiske Stone was born on October 11, 1872 in Chesterfield, New Hampshire.
In 1910 Stone became the dean of the Columbia Law School.
Stone died in 1946 at the age of 73.
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 Stone, Harlan Fiske - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
STONE, HARLAN FISKE [Stone, Harlan Fiske] 1872-1946, American jurist, 12th Chief Justice of the United States (1941-46), b.
Chesterfield, N.H. A graduate (1898) of Columbia Univ. law school, he was admitted (1899) to the bar, practiced law in New York City, and lectured at the Columbia law school, where he became professor (1902) and dean (1910).
Stone saw many of his minority opinions later accepted as majority decisions.
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 Harlan Fiske Stone   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
Stone's experience in academic work was good preparation for his tenure on the High Court where he articulated a central tenet of his judicial philosophy: the concept of judicial self-restraint.
Stone's ideas about the role of the judiciary were forcefully expressed in several important dissenting opinions during the heyday of the New Deal, when the Court majority continually struck down national legislation.
Stone gave life to the doctrine of preferred freedoms and that the judiciary maintained special oversight of individual liberties while it withdrew from the realm of economic legislation.
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 Harlan Fiske Stone Biography | World of Criminal Justice
Stone served as U.S. attorney general from 1924 to 1925 under President Calvin Coolidge before being appointed to the Supreme Court in 1925 by Coolidge.
Stone was readily confirmed and the Senate adopted this method for all future judicial candidates.
Stone was not a liberal but he could not accept the judicial activism of the majority.
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 Harlan Fiske Stone
A pro active Attorney General, Stone argued many of his department's cases in the federal courts and launched an anti trust investigation of the Aluminum Company of America, controlled by the family of Andrew Mellon, who was Coolidge's Secretary of the Treasury.
During the Hoover administration, Stone served as an informal advisor to the President and was a member of Hoover's pre breakfast "Medicine Ball Cabinet," a fitness group, at the White House.
Stone's insistence that the justices should be controlled by an informed sense of judicial self restraint was just as applicable to the new liberal Court as it had been to the old conservative Court.
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His tome on Stone, 802 pages of small type with many footnotes and few photographs, was the crown jewel of a lifetime of legal scholarship.
Stone was appointed Chief Justice of the Supreme Court just in time for World War II, and dropped dead of a heart attack in 1946.
Stone's colleagues on the Supreme Court during the 1930's were similarly fearful that, if they resigned to make way for new justices and a new philosophy, that Congress would try to blame them for the depression and slash their pensions in punishment.
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 Harlan Stone
Harlan Fiske Stone was born in Chesterfield, New Hampshire, on 11th October, 1872.
In 1924 Calvin Coolidge appointed Stone as his attorney general and was responsible for reorganizing the Federal Bureau of Investigations.
During the administration of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Stone disagreed with the conservative members of the Supreme Court that much of the New Deal legislation was unconstitutional.
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 HARLAN FISKE STONE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
Carolene Products Co.), Justice Harlan Fiske Stone announced that Congress had the power to regulate interstate commerce, and if it chose to set minimal standards for milk quality, that was the business of the legislative and not the judicial branch.
While there had been some cases involving individual liberties prior to this decision, the footnote is the demarcation point in the Court's shift to an emphasis on protecting civil rights and liberties, as well as the integrity of the democratic political process.
There may be narrower scope for operation of the presumption of constitutionality when legislation appears on its face to be within a specific prohibition of the Constitution, such as those of the first ten Amendments, which are deemed equally specific when held to be embraced within the 14th.
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 Marshall Harvey Stone - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Stone was the son of Harlan Fiske Stone, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, 1941-46.
During World War II Stone did classified research as part of the Office of Naval Operations and the Office of the Chief of Staff of the War Department.
Stone was elected to the National Academy of Sciences (United States) in 1938.
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 AMAsearchdetail   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
Harlan Fiske Stone was born in Chesterfield, New Hampshire.
Stone practiced law in New York City until his 1924 appointment by President Calvin Coolidge as attorney general of the United States.
Stone took the minority opinion on many controversial cases during the New Deal Era, often defending President Franklin D. Roosevelt's social and economic reforms against the Court's conservative majority.
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 Living Legacies
For a quarter of a century, Stone simultaneously maintained an active private practice of law while serving as a professor and later dean of Columbia Law School.
The “Stone-Agers,” as Columbia graduates from the period of Stone’s deanship fondly call themselves, report that Stone was personally acquainted with every student to pass through the law school during his tenure.
Stone foreshadowed the answer in a famous footnote to the Court’s otherwise obscure 1938 decision in United States v.
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 Harlan Fiske Stone - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
He became a lawyer in New York City from 1898 onward, initially a member of the firm Satterlee, Sullivan and Stone, and later a member of the firm Sullivan and Cromwell.
To date, Justice Stone is the only Senior Associate Justice to have been elevated to Chief Justice, thus becoming the only individual to sit in all nine seats of the Court.
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 Ethan Stone - The University of Iowa College of Law
Ethan Stone received his A.B., cum laude, from Harvard in 1991 where he majored in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and was elected Phi Beta Kappa.
He received his J.D. from Columbia University in 1995, where he was a James Kent scholar for two of his three years and a Harlan Fiske Stone scholar in the other year, and served as an articles editor of the Columbia Law Review.
Professor Stone worked as an associate at Irell and Manella LLP and Latham and Watkins, both in Los Angeles, specializing in mergers and acquisitions, private financings and other transactional matters, from 1996 to 2002.
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 Stone (print-only)
He was honoured by being named Josiah Willard Gibbs lecturer for 1956, delivering a lecture on Mathematics and the future of science at Rochester, New York, on 27 December 1956.
Stone was elected president of the International Mathematical Union in 1952-54 and he was president of the International Committee of Mathematical Instruction from 1961 to 1967.
Stone's interests, which included cooking, are described in [1]:-
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 The Political Graveyard: Index to Politicians: Stone
Stone, Dana — of Wayzata, Hennepin County, Minn. Republican.
Stone, Robert — of Topeka, Shawnee County, Kan. Republican.
Stone, William Milo (1827-1893) — also known as William M. Stone — of Knoxville, Marion County, Iowa.
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 Stone, stone- WordWeb dictionary definition
"stone is abundant in New England and there are many quarries"
"he must have a heart of stone"; "her face was as hard as stone"
Encyclopedia: Stone, England Stone, Gloucestershire Stone, Buckinghamshire Stone Stone, Barton Warren Stone, Kent Stone, Staffordshire Stone, paper, scissors Stone, Paper, Scissors Stone, Marshall Stone, Marshalll
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 Lawrence Lessig
Stone, that you will look over your shoulder a little bit, because maybe some soldier in a foxhole somewhere might be a tad angered with you and your lunacy.
In 1922, Attorney General Harlan Fiske Stone reined in Hoover and warned of the dangers of “secret police.” By 1923, all persons who had been convicted under the Espionage Act of 1917 and the Sedition Act of 1918 had been released from prison.
Thereafter, they were all granted amnesty on the premise that the nation had violated their rights under the First Amendment.
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 AllRefer.com - Harlan Fiske Stone (U.S. History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
AllRefer.com - Harlan Fiske Stone (U.S. History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Harlan Fiske Stone 1872–1946, American jurist, 12th Chief Justice of the United States (1941–46), b.
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 Stone, Harlan Fiske - ENCYCLOPEDIA - The History Channel UK
Stone, Harlan Fiske, 1872-1946, American jurist, 12th Chief Justice of the United States (1941-46), b.
STONE, I. The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia Copyright © 2000.
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