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We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in colour and fire, but of course they would have to fit into the pattern of our society and be able to take orders from sound administrative types.
Felix Frankfurter
Born: November 15, 1882
Died: February 22, 1965 (aged 82)
Bio: Felix Frankfurter was a jurist, who served as an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. Frankfurter was born in Vienna and immigrated to New York at the age of 12.
Known for:
- The Case of Sacco and Vanzetti (1927)
- The Business of the Supreme Court (1927)
- From the diaries of Felix Frankfurter
- Mr. Justice Holmes and the Supreme Court (1938)
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