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	GAnet - About GA - History & Traditions - Owens J. Roberts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Roberts' pursuits at the time would be the envy of today's upwardly mobile: a legal career overshadowing the famous lawyers of the 1990s, a member of the power elite.
		Roberts' maternal grandmother was a descendant of the Schwenkfelders, a group of early religious Pennsylvania settlers.
		Roberts was a tall, tobacco-smoking, smiling fellow who had a passion for life and what it had to offer - from walking the halls of political power to canoeing in the Poconos.
	www.germantownacademy.org /aboutga/history_traditions/profiles/Roberts/portrait.shtml (2192 words)

	Owen J. Roberts - A Short Biography
		Roberts was not one to shy away from a difficult task, and his meticulousness and tireless efforts revealed a complex scheme of bribery and favoritism at the highest levels of government.
		Roberts' national reputation was solidified during his investigation of the Teapot Dome scandal, and in 1930 he was appointed to the Supreme Court by President Hoover.
		Roberts' reputation for conducting a fearless and thorough investigation, gained during his prosecutions in the Teapot Dome scandal, ensured that the commission's conclusions would be accepted in that politically and emotionally charged investigation.
	www.mmwr.com /home/about-us/our-history/owen-j.-roberts---a-short-biography---/default.aspx (1064 words)

	Roberts, Owen Josephus: West's Encyclopedia of American Law
		Owen Josephus Roberts served as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court for fifteen years.
		Roberts cast the deciding vote in a major case that marked a shift in the Court's approach to such regulation.
		Roberts was born on May 2, 1875, in Germantown, Pennsylvania, where he spent much of his childhood.
	law.enotes.com /wests-law-encyclopedia/roberts-owen-josephus (179 words)

	Owen J. Roberts School District: Our Namesake
		Owen Josephus Roberts was born May 2, 1875 in Germantown, Pennsylvania.
		Justice Roberts' connection to northern Chester County began in 1929 with the purchase of "Bryncoed", a 700 acre farm in the Birchrunville area.
		Justice Roberts died May 17, 1955 at the age of 80 and is buried at St. Andrew's Episcopal Church.
	www.ojr.k12.pa.us /district/namesake.asp?page=2 (237 words)

	Owen Josephus Roberts - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Roberts switched his position on the constitutionality of the New Deal in late 1936, and the Supreme Court handed down West Coast Hotel v.
		Smith, 307 U.S. Roberts was appointed by Roosevelt to head the commission investigating the attack on Pearl Harbor; his report was published in 1942 and was highly critical of the United States Military.
		In his later years on the bench, Roberts was the only Justice on the Supreme Court not appointed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Owen_Josephus_Roberts (544 words)

	Josephus - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Josephus, Flavius (ad 37?-101?), Jewish historian, born in Jerusalem of both royal and priestly lineage.
		Daniels, Josephus (1862-1948), American editor, publisher, and statesman, born in Washington, North Carolina.
		Roberts, Owen Josephus (1875-1955), associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, a leading exponent of conservatism in jurisprudence.
	ca.encarta.msn.com /Josephus.html (55 words)

	Owen Josephus Roberts - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Roberts, Owen Josephus 1875-1955, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1930-45), b.
		Appointed (1930) to the Supreme Court by President Hoover, Roberts faced with other justices the problems of legislation for a depression economy.
		Owen J. Roberts played a pivotal New Deal role: School district's namesake was swing Supreme Court vote.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-rbrtso1.html (280 words)

	OJR Middle School: Justice Owen J. Roberts
		OWEN J. Justice Owen J. Roberts, a man who lived quietly among us, was one of the great men of our time.
		His paternal grandfather, William Owen Roberts, a miller, came to America from Wales in 1808 and established a grist mill on the Perkiomen Creek near Collegeville.
		In 1904 Justice Roberts married the former Elizabeth Caldwell Roberts of Fairfield, Connecticut.
	ojrms.ojrsd.com /info/handbook.asp?page=1175 (283 words)

	The Supreme Court Historical Society
		Roberts was the chief dissenter, and as Swindler notes, "his outburst of criticism in the winter of 1944 had grown into a torrent of objections that were recorded in fifty-three dissents in the term ending in June, l945."[28]
		If Owen J. Roberts came to the end of his judicial career unhappy and embittered by the direction which he saw the New Deal Justices leading the Court, his colleagues were equally stung by the attacks upon them for what he considered their injudicious performance.
		Justice Roberts, but that his "present accomplishments give every assurance that he will rank with the leaders of the Court." However, time has produced "mixed reviews" on Roberts' contribution to American constitutional law; on the other hand, the reviewers have frequently become enmeshed in their own political prejudices.
	www.supremecourthistory.org /04_library/subs_volumes/04_c16_i.html (2914 words)

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		Roberts received his B.A. in 1895 and his LL.B. in 1898, both from the University of Pennsylvania.
		From 1918 until 1930, Roberts practiced law and served on a number of government boards and agencies.
		On Sept. 10, 1946, Roberts was elected the first lay president of the House of Deputies.
	www.episcopalchurch.org /19625_12935_ENG_HTM.htm (152 words)

	Edward Whelan: Abortion & Justice - Let’s hope John Roberts is a genuine moderate (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		In those cases, as in all the other briefs that Roberts wrote in government and in private practice, he was acting as an advocate for his client.
		John Roberts is, by all accounts, a man of deep intellect and high character who understands the proper role of the judiciary in our constitutional republic.
		Roberts is going to get confirmed and he is a lousy choice--I hope the Dems can come up with a long history he has been smoking dope between oral arguments.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1448509/posts (6436 words)

	Report of the Roberts Commission
		The Roberts Commission was created by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, on December 18, 1941.
		Owen Josephus Roberts, an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, was appointed by Roosevelt to head the commission.
		Owen Josephus Roberts was appointed to the Supreme Court in 1930 by President Herbert Hoover.
	www.subsowespac.org /blogs/the_patrol_zone/dec_2006/pz_2006_022.shtml (8528 words)

	Wikinfo \| Owen Josephus Roberts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Owen Josephus Roberts (May 2, 1875 — May 17, 1955) was an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court for fifteen years.
		Owen Roberts Dies; Former Justice, 80, New York Times, May 18, 1955.
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	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Owen_Josephus_Roberts (270 words)

	Go Ahead And Bet The Ranch, CBS' Andrew Cohen Predicts Roberts Will Be Confirmed - CBS News
		Roberts is President George W. Bush's gorgeous opening drive off the tee; starting down the center and to the right but still on the mark to hit the fairway's sweet spot.
		Roberts has all the right conservative credentials without the firebrand temper, potty mouth, or careless paper trail that doomed some of his predecessors.
		The White House hopes that the second Justice Roberts - the first Justice Roberts, Owen Josephus Roberts, was appointed by President Hoover in 1930 and served until 1945 - is as reliable a conservative vote as the President's legal heroes, Justices Clarence Thomas and Antonin Scalia.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2005/07/20/opinion/courtwatch/main710196.shtml (1125 words)

	Owen J. Roberts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Roberts also devoted his time to teaching at the University ofPennsylvania Law School.
		Justice Roberts died May 17,1955 at the age of 80 and is buried at St. Andrew's Episcopal Church.
		Yet it was Roberts who, along with Hughes, executed the 1937 switch that changed the course of constitutional law in our time.
	www.brookeeverett.com /cheerleaders/ojr.cheerleading.at/ojr.owen.j.roberts.html (351 words)

	Legends of the Bar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Robert von Moschzisker (1870-1939) began studying law at age 13 in the office of Edward Shippen, whose practice he joined in 1896 after being admitted to the bar.
		Owen Josephus Roberts (1875-1955) was an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1930 to 1945.
		Roberts first gained nationwide attention in 1924 when President Calvin Coolidge appointed him special counsel to investigate and prosecute criminal activity associated with the government's lease to private interests of oil reserves valued at more than $100 million.
	philadelphiabar.org /page/AboutLegends?appNum=1&... (11132 words)

	Owen Josephus Roberts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Owen Josephus Roberts (May 2, 1875 May 17, 1955) was an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court for fifteen years.
		Since President Roosevelt's plan to appoint several new justices as part of his "Court-packing " plan of 1937 coincided with the Court's favorable decision in Parrish, many people called Roberts's vote in that case the "switch in time that saved nine." Roberts wrote the majority opinion in the landmark case New Negro Alliance v.
		Smith, 307 U.S. Roberts was appointed by Roosevelt to head the commission investigating the attack on Pearl Harbor ; his report was published in 1942 and was highly critical of the United States Military.
	edict.homelinux.net /416/191322.html (1022 words)

	Penn Law Journal - Snippets of History
		When Owen Josephus Roberts (1875-1955) resigned from the U.S. Supreme Court in 1945, he did not retire to his farmhouse in Chester Springs, Pennsylvania.
		Roberts was elected dean of the Law School effective September 1, 1948, and presided over it for three academic years before his retirement on June 30, 19 5 1.
		Roberts was the last of William Draper Lewis's prot6g6s to direct the Law School, but in many ways he demonstrated that he was also a window on the future.
	www.law.upenn.edu /alumnijournal/fall1999/article3/page2.html (289 words)

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		Owen Cafe is the Owen Graduate Residence food court at Michigan State University.
		The '''Owen figure-skating family''' consisted of Guy Owen, a CanadaCanadian, his United StatesAmerican wife Maribel Vinson, and their two American-born daughters, all of whom were ice skating champions.
		Image:Owen Roberts.gifrightthumb150px '''Owen Josephus Roberts''' (May 2, 1875 andndash; May 17, 1955) was an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court for fifteen years.
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	The Political Graveyard: Index to Politicians: Roberts, O to R
		Roberts, Owen Josephus (1875-1955) — also known as Owen J. Roberts — Born in Germantown, Philadelphia,
		Roberts, Ray — of Monett, Barry County, Mo. Democrat.
		Roberts, Robert Whyte (1784-1865) — also known as Robert W. Roberts — of Hillsboro, Scott County, Miss.
	politicalgraveyard.com /bio/roberts7.html (409 words)

	Robert Clergerie Resources & Information - robert clergerie
		John G. Roberts, Jr., the seventeenth Chief Justice of the United States.
		John Roberts, a CBS television journalist, formerly a Canadian television host known as J.D. Roberts
		Saint John Roberts, one of the Catholic Forty Martyrs of England and Wales
	www.bizhisto.com /Biz-Retail-Companies-R---Sc/Robert-Clergerie.html (219 words)

	Snippets of History: Part IV (1915 - 1951)
		When Owen Josephus Roberts (1875 - 1955) resigned from the U.S. Supreme Court in 1945, he did not retire to his farmhouse in Chester Springs, Pennsylvania.
		He taught torts to a section of the first-year class and conducted a third-year seminar on constitutional law.
		Roberts was the last of William Draper Lewis's proteges to direct the Law School, but in many ways he demonstrated that he was also a window on the future.
	www.law.upenn.edu /sesquicentennial/scrolling/part4c.html (235 words)

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		'''Owen Edward Pennefather Lloyd''' (VC, KCB) was an Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to United KingdomBritish and Commonwealth forces.
		The dam was built on Owen Falls near to the city of Jinja (Uganda)Jinja and completed in 1954.
		'''Owen McCafferty''' (born 1961) is a playwright from Northern Ireland.
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	AllRefer.com - Owen Josephus Roberts (Supreme Court, Biography) - Encyclopedia
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		Owen Josephus Roberts 1875–1955, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1930–45), b.
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	Roberts Dissenting -- Monday, Jul. 16, 1945 -- Page 1 -- TIME
		Famed for his work as prosecutor in the Teapot Dome scandal, genial, wide-mouthed Owen Roberts was a big-time Philadelphia corporation lawyer when Herbert Hoover called him to the high court in 1930.
		But as the turbulent 30s went by and seven Roosevelt appointees took their places on the bench, he became the court's chief defender of precedent and legal stability.
		By the time the new court had demonstrated a capacity to defy precedent and also to reverse itself (as in the Jehovah's Witnesses case), Justice Roberts had plunked down a few tart phrases of his own.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,792161,00.html (640 words)

	The Philadelphia Lawyer - Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Owen Josephus Roberts was the son of a Germantown hardware merchant, and he had been a law student when Pepper taught at the University of Pennsylvania.
		Owen J. Roberts emerged as a national hero.
		After hostilities ceased, two other Philadelphia lawyers were called upon by the President for exceptional service: Francis Biddle to serve as a judge on the Nuremberg War Crimes Court; and Earl G. Harrison to report on the treatment of Jews who had survived their internment in Nazi concentration camps.
	www.philadelphiabar.org /page/TPLWinter02ThisIsOurBar?appNum=2&wosid=dFdfEaGabKlZdIHJS33VH0 (11086 words)

	French Creek Elementary School (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Barbara M. Guy, new principal at French Creek Elementary School, “I have very deep Owen J. Roberts roots.” Indeed, these roots reach back to the school’s namesake Justice Owen Josephus Roberts, who also happened to be an acquaintance of her grandfather’s.
		Her mother graduated from Warwick when it was a high school, and her father was a school board member at Vincent before the jointure.
		It is no surprise that she and her husband Steve are parents of two OJR graduates.
	ojrfc.ojrsd.com /news/story.asp?story=505 (202 words)

	History of Penn Law - Overview
		Roberts was elected dean of the Law School effective September 1, 1948, and presided over it for three academic years before his retirement on June 30, 1951.
		He introduced the Legal Aid program under Professor Louis B. Schwartz and hired faculty members A. Leo Levin, Noyes E. Leech, and Paul J. Mishkin, who would have a lasting influence on the next generation of students.
		Roberts was the last of William Draper Lewis' proteges to direct the Law School, but in many ways he demonstrated that he was also a window on the future.
	www.law.upenn.edu /about/history/overview4.html (888 words)

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