Felix Frankfurter Research Paper

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Slone 1 Cody Slone Judy Howell Felix Frankfurter 3/23/11 Felix Frankfurter “All our work, our whole life is a matter of semantics, because words are the tools with which we work, the material out of which laws are made, out of which the Constitution was written. Everything depends on our understanding of them." -Felix Frankfurter Felix Frankfurter was born on the 15th of November in 1882 in the capital of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, to a Jewish household. In 1894, he along with his family emigrated to New York City. Unable to speak english upon arrival to america he quickly mastered the language well enough to graduate City College and gain admittance to Harvard Law School. Frankfurter obviously found his niche…show more content…
Landis in 1927. As a new member of the law facility, he argued several cases in front of the Court some of which were Bunting v. Oregon (1917) and Adkins v. Children’s Hospital (1923). Felix was also a leading activist in the American Zionist movement, the Sacco and Vanzetti case, and many more cases that can be related to the Progressive movement. Appointed as chair of the War Labor Policies in 1918 which was in affect to the time he had spent as an assistant to secretary of war the previous year where he specialized in labor disputes . December 20 1919 he married he wife Marion A. Denman when his law career was in full…show more content…
A few weeks later two immigrants from Italy, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, drifted into a trap set by police to capture the suspects. Sacco nor Vanzetti had any previous run ins with the police, it was made aware to the authorities of their strong support of local labor strikes, antiwar protest during World War I, and associations with other political radicals. The two weren't immediately key suspects in the robbery homicides, the police soon found out that the two men were armed and had a politically radical literature in their possession. Perhaps trying to protect others the two did not answer questions directly about their current activities, and the authorities suspicion grew

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