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Oliver Wendell Holmes

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by Stephen Budiansky


  Odyssey (Homer), 331, 377

  oil pipelines, 339–41

  Oklahoma, railroad segregation law, 414

  Old Corner Book Store, 49

  “Old Ironsides” (Holmes Sr.), 35

  “Old Sergeant, The” (Forceythe), 142, 452

  Olds, Irving S., 320

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise History of the Supreme Court, 454–55

  Olmstead, Roy, 433–34

  Oregon

  OWH’s visit to, 217

  working hour laws, 357, 361–62, 412

  Origin of Species (Darwin), 170, 486n49

  “originalists,” 21, 459–60

  Overland Campaign, 114–25, 114, 119, 124; map, 116

  Oxford Book of French Verse, 332–33

  Oxford University, 140, 159, 323–24, 372

  pacifists, 364, 44, 441–42, 460

  Palffy, Eleanor Roelker, 511n70

  Palfrey, Lt. Col. Francis W., 90–91

  Palfrey, John G., 299, 313

  Palmer, A. Mitchell, 386, 387

  Palmer Raids, 387, 425

  Paper, Lewis J., 466

  Paradise Lost, 12

  Paradiso (Dante), 332

  Paris

  Holmes Sr.’s medical studies in, 35

  Laski escapes to after setting off bomb, 372

  OWH’s visits to, 141, 142, 159, 304

  Parker, Francis E., 182

  Parker, Justice Isaac, 379–80, 392, 393

  Parker House, 38, 109, 126, 161

  Parrington, V. L., 43

  patent medicines, 441

  patents, 444, 523n22

  “Path of the Law, The” (Holmes), 243–46

  Peckham, Justice Rufus W., 269, 270, 272, 288–89, 291, 292–93

  Peirce, Charles Sanders, 424, 483n66

  Pembroke, Earl of, 219

  Peninsula Campaign, 91–93, 133

  Pennsylvania, legislation in, 408–9, 410, 411

  peonage laws, 414

  Pepys, Samuel, 406

  per curium opinions, 344, 359

  Percy, Lord Eustace, 329

  personal injury, see torts and tort law

  petition, right of, 380

  Pettigrew (misspelling by TR of Petigru, James L.), 255

  Phagan, Mary, 348, 353

  Philadelphia (Pa.), 87, 107, 111, 260

  Phillips, Wendell, 66, 69–70, 130

  philosophy

  free will, 148, 322

  OWH’s study of, 57–58, 60–65, 136, 148–51, 154, 333

  pragmatism, 150, 245–46, 424

  skepticism, 149–50

  and supernatural belief, 322

  and theology, 61–66

  picketing, 241, 405, 523n20

  Pierce, Franklin, 68

  Pinchot, Gifford, 203

  pipelines, oil, 339–41

  Pitney, Justice Mahon, 336–37, 348, 382

  Pittsfield (Mass.)

  boyhood summer home of OWH, 51–53, 52, 248

  OWH hears divorce cases in, 187–88

  OWH recruits for regiment in, 79

  OWH writes to girl he knew in, 125

  Planned Parenthood, 15

  Plato, 60–61, 331, 332

  “pluralism,” 375

  Poe, Charles K., 314

  “police power”

  and health and safety regulation, 292, 409–10

  OWH’s disdain for term, 200–201, 296, 409

  and public businesses, 410

  and zoning, 296–97

  Pollock, Sir Frederick

  correspondence and friendship with OWH, 17, 159, 211–12, 283

  OWH’s remarks to: reminiscences of Boston, 49; surviving war, 123; dangers of certainty, 130; philosophical merits of Chauncey Wright, 149; delight at being a judge, 182–83; heavy workload on SJC, 183; prostate troubles, 207; discussions with union leader, 224; liability of intervening party, 229–30; external standard in manslaughter case, 232–33; dislike of ignorant praise, 258; troubles caused by writing quick decisions, 266–67; breakup of friendship with TR, 299–300; Jane Austen “a bore,” 333; dissents the majority thought “ill timed,” 363;

  Laski “most learned” and “extraordinarily agreeable chap,” 374; Court term delayed by 1918 flu pandemic, 377; Brandeis’s “profound study of bread making,” 411

  praises The Common Law, 177

  publication of letters, 457

  visits OWH at Beverly Farms, 331

  Pollock, Georgina, Lady, 123, 139, 234

  Pollock, John, 17

  pollution, 198, 301, 432

  Ponsky, Dr. Lee, 491n19

  “Poor Richard” (H. James), 146

  population growth, 398

  Porcellian Club, 59

  Portland (Ore.), OWH’s visit to, 217

  Posner, Richard A., 11, 293, 294

  Post Office, U.S.

  censorship, 368–69, 371, 440, 460

  “fraud orders,” 440–41

  mail-bomb plot, 386–87

  Potomac, Army of the, 78, 92, 102, 114, 118, 119, 125, 141–42

  Potomac River, 281, 424

  Pound, Roscoe, 388–89, 393, 426

  Powhatan Hotel, 408

  pragmatism, 245–46, 424

  Pragmatism (W. James), 150

  prediction theory of law, 243

  prenuptial agreements, 192, 232

  presidential powers, 524n22

  press, freedom of, see free speech

  price control laws, 224, 288–89, 410, 449

  primaries, electoral, 433

  privilege, legal concept of, 174, 241–42

  “Privilege, Malice, and Intent” (Holmes), 230, 241, 242

  Privileges or Immunities Clause, 289–90

  “procedural due process,” 290 (see also Due Process Clause)

  professionalism, rise of, 136–38

  Progressive movement, 15, 297, 327, 328–30, 335–36, 399, 412, 419

  Prohibition, 130, 312, 433–34, 449

  property law, 171–72

  property rights

  absolutist view of, 200–201, 288–89, 405, 409–11

  and business regulation, 222–23, 224, 268, 291, 405

  limited by social need, 65, 447

  and matter of degree, 201, 296–97

  property taxes, 196, 29–97, 445

  Proust, Marcel, 8, 152

  Province Street (Boston), 49

  public accommodations, 269, 290

  public health and safety, 288, 292, 337

  public schools, 26, 289, 294

  “puke” test, 293, 459

  Punch, 226–27

  Purgatorio (Dante), 332

  Puritanism, see Calvinism

  Quakers, 12, 70, 71

  Queen’s County (Ireland), 235

  Queenstown (Ireland), 237

  Quincy, Josiah, 28

  racial justice, see mob-dominated trials; peonage laws; segregation; voting rights

  railroads

  and exclusive taxicab contracts, 437

  firing of union members, 302, 353

  monopolies, 297, 355–56

  regulation of, 224, 225, 288, 296

  and segregation, 290, 414

  and standard time, 186

  tort cases involving, 233–24, 246, 346, 432

  Ralli, Helen, 281

  Ralli, Marguerite (later Lady Tweeddale; Lewis Einstein’s stepdaughter), 455

  rational basis test, 288, 409, 459

  RCA (Radio Corporation of America), 320

  “reasonable man,” 21, 175, 232–33

  Reconstruction, 289 (see also “Black Codes”; Fifteenth Amendment; Fourteenth Amendment; segregation; voting rights)

  recruiting, military, 368, 377–78

  Red Scare, 387, 460

  referendums, 224–25

  regulation, economic

  of financial markets, 198–200, 272, 288, 295

  justified by public health or safety, 288, 292, 337

  and legislative power, 225, 268, 288, 294–96, 409, 459

  lic
ensing, 288, 290, 410

  and “police power,” 200–201, 292, 295, 409

  prices and rates, 224, 288–89, 404, 410, 449

  wages and hours, 222–23, 291–92, 357, 361–62, 412, 458–59

  see also antitrust cases; Fourteenth Amendment; labor and labor law; property rights

  rent control, 404

  Republic (Plato), 331

  Republican Party, 77, 180, 322–23

  restraint of trade, 198–99

  Revere, Maj. Paul, 78, 84, 100, 109

  Richmond (Va.), 91, 92, 116, 120, 125, 238, 274

  Riggs National Bank, 314

  “right to contract,” 291, 292 (see also Due Process Clause; “liberty of contract”)

  rights

  abstract conception of, 21, 64, 342, 369–70, 376, 413, 433, 458

  as balance of interests, 21–22, 64–65, 293–97

  civil, see peonage laws; segregation; voting rights

  to fair trial, 290, 350–51, 418–19, 459

  property, see property rights

  “things a given crowd will fight for,” 106, 369–70

  workers’, see labor and labor law

  see also Due Process Clause; First Amendment; Fourteenth Amendment; free speech; natural law; Privileges or Immunities Clause; search and seizure

  rivers, protection of, 198, 301, 447

  Robertson, Jessie, 142

  Rock Creek Park, 260, 281, 316, 385, 424, 450

  Rockefeller, John D., 298–99, 302, 386

  Rockport (Mass.), 371, 374

  Rollins, Clara Sherwood, see Stevens, Clara Sherwood Rollins

  Roman law, 157, 169

  Roosevelt, Franklin D.

  birthday visit to OWH, 449–50

  at Harvard, 59

  OWH’s apocryphal assessment of, 9

  and OWH’s bequest to U.S. government, 453

  Roosevelt, Theodore

  antitrust campaign, 297–300, 298, 327

  appoints OWH to Court, 254–56

  Bull Moose campaign, 329–30, 366

  and Fanny Holmes, 277, 278

  friendship and falling-out with OWH, 275, 299–302, 412

  Lewis Einstein’s biography of, 280

  at Harvard, 59

  OWH’s political opinion of, 329–30

  political feud with Hughes, 322

  and Rough Riders, 209

  Ropes, Henry, 73, 105, 110–11

  Ropes, John C., 110–11, 135, 162

  Ropes and Gray, 110, 154

  Rose, Horace Chapman, 308, 319, 320, 448

  Rowe, James Henry, Jr., 8, 210, 313, 320, 454

  royalties, 277, 523n22

  “rule of reason,” 343

  Rushmore, Mount, 329

  Ruskin, John, 220

  Russell, Bertrand, 3

  Russell, Gen. David, 121

  S. S. Pierce & Co., 307, 312

  Sacco, Nicola, 425–28

  Sagamore Hill (N.Y.), 255

  Saint-Gaudens, Augustus, 209, 247, 248, 281

  Salisbury (England), 219

  San Francisco, OWH’s visit to, 217

  Sand, George, 332

  Santayana, George, 366

  Sargent, see also Sergeant

  Sargent, Amelia Jackson, see Holmes, Amelia Jackson (Mrs. Turner Sargent; sister of OWH)

  Sargent, John Singer, 210

  Sargent, Turner, 227

  Saturday Club, 27, 38, 46, 144, 161

  Saturday Review, 177

  Saxonia, S.S., 303

  Schwartz, Bernard, 291

  Schwimmer, Rosika, 440, 441–42, 441

  Science et technique en droit privé positif (Gény), 376

  Scotland, OWH’s visit to, 142

  Scott, Ethel (née James), 215

  love and gratitude for OWH, 215, 239, 283, 304

  marital difficulties, 320–21

  OWH’s remarks to: folly of human aspirations, 8; rivalry with father, 46; melancholy associations on reading Proust, 152; value of dirty books, 178; wife’s eye for beauty in world, 205; affection for old sergeant of regiment, 322; would be lonely but for young friends, 326; uneasy feelings of duty during summer vacations, 331; young friends have launched New Republic, 354; gets on well with Taft, 403; most great things done with small populations, 431; if wife had lived would have been only for pain, 439; wants to get all he can out of “the old hulk,” 446

  visit to Beverly Farms, 331

  Scott, Leslie, 215, 320–21, 334

  Scott, Gen. Winfield, 75

  Scottsboro Boys, 459

  search and seizure, 387, 433–35, 520n33

  Second Corps (Sumner), 94–96, 95

  secretaries (law clerks), OWH’s

  devotion to OWH, 15, 319, 320, 399, 442–43, 448–49

  later careers, 320

  minimal legal duties of, 314–17, 318, 438

  office arrangements for, 45, 308–9

  OWH anecdotes told by, 5–6, 8, 10, 45, 312, 315–19, 397, 398

  and OWH’s bequest to government, 454

  OWH’s rule against marriage, 317–18

  selection of, 5, 313–14, 317–18, 448–49

  social duties, 314, 316–19, 326, 406, 442–43

  Sedition Act of 1798, 392

  seditious libel, 368, 392

  Sedgwick, Arthur, 162

  Sedgwick, Gen. John, 112, 117, 119, 479n55

  segregation, 268, 269, 290, 414–16

  Senate, U.S., 254, 255–56, 261

  “separate but equal,” 268, 269, 414

  Sergeant, see also Sargent

  Sergeant, Elizabeth Shepley, 422–23

  “seriatim” opinions, 344

  Seven Days Battle, 92

  Seventh Day Adventists, 460

  sewage, 198

  Shakespeare, William, 7, 377, 406, 408

  Sharpsburg (Md.), 93, 95

  Shattuck, George Otis, 154, 154–56, 180–81, 216–17

  Shattuck, Holmes and Monroe, 179

  Shaw, Col. Robert Gould, 111, 145, 247, 248

  Sheehan, Canon Patrick, 151, 284–86, 285, 324–26

  Sherman Antitrust Act, 297, 298, 343, 503n33

  Shils, Edward, 372–73, 374

  Shipp, Joseph, 416–17

  Shoreham Hotel, 260

  Sidney, Sir Philip, 85

  Sims, Thomas, 67

  Sixth Corps (Sedgwick), 112, 112, 113, 115–17, 116, 121, 125

  slander, 174 (see also libel)

  slaughterhouses, regulation of, 289–90

  slavery

  and abolitionism, 65–70, 77–78

  and Fugitive Slave Law, 66–68

  OWH’s view of, 69–70, 106, 130

  and postwar “Black Codes,” 290

  return of escaped slaves in war, 89

  and Thirteenth Amendment, 269

  “whipping day,” 100

  Social Law Library (Boston), 488n19

  Social Statics (Spencer), 294, 295

  socialism, 19, 223

  Socialist Party, 377, 378, 390, 383

  “Soldier’s Faith, The” (Holmes), 117–18, 119–20, 127, 254, 364, 376

  Soldiers’ Home, 316

  Sophocles, 220

  Sorrento (Maine), 321

  Southerners, in Washington society, 273–74, 275, 278

  sovereign immunity, 436

  speech, freedom of, see free speech

  Spencer, Herbert, 294, 295

  Spinoza, Baruch, 7, 333

  Spotsylvania, Battle of, 2, 119–20, 119

  Spotsylvania Court House (Va.), 116, 118

  Springfield (Mass.), 184

  St. Leger, Ethel, 423

  St. Leger family, 235, 237

  Standard Oil Company, 339–40, 343

  “standard time” case, 186–87, 186

  Stanford Law School, 320

  states’ rights, see common law: federal; Fourteenth Amendment

  Stephen, Leslie, 2, 140–42, 150, 159

  sterilization, sexual, 14–15, 428–31

  Stevens, Clara Sh
erwood Rollins (Mrs. Joseph S. Stevens)

  appearance and character, 209, 211

  attachment and gratitude to OWH, 214–15

  death, 423

  novelistic depiction of OWH, 213–14

  OWH’s comments to: father’s strengths and weaknesses, 43–44; Henry Dalton’s coolness in battle, 117; “out of politics,” 253–54; destroying old papers, 257; initial gloomy reaction to nomination to Court, 257; working “full blast” on Court, 267; superficiality of Washington friendships, 279; “nobody wants a dispassionate man,” 302; needed to take in his cousin Dorothy Upham, 309; even solitaire feels like duty, 333; death of old friends, 343; Brandeis always leaves him feeling encouraged, 356–57; asks to burn his letters, 455

  Stevens, Joseph S., 209

  Stimson, Henry, 327, 329

  stock sales, regulation of, 272, 295

  stockyards, regulation of, 288, 300–301

  Stone, Brig. Gen. Charles P., 80–83, 89

  Stone, Justice Harlan Fiske, 341, 402, 409, 438–39, 441, 444

  Stoneleigh Court, 357, 358

  strikes, 221, 241, 247, 348, 388, 389

  Studley (Va.), 121

  Suarez, Francisco, 326

  “substantive due process,” 29 (see also Due Process Clause)

  sugar trust, 327, 329

  Sumner, Charles

  as abolitionist, 67, 78

  employs OWH’s brother as secretary, 225

  Grant’s detestation of, 132

  member of Saturday Club, 38

  and OWH’s introductions to London society, 139

  visits OWH when wounded, 88

  Sumner, Gen. Edwin V., 94

  Sunday laws, 294

  Supreme Court, U.S.

  case argued by OWH before, 156

  caseload and backlog, 401–3

  and certiorari process, 402–3

  conferences, 6, 263, 337, 345, 361, 401, 411, 444

  contempt trial conducted by, 416–17

  courtroom, 261–64, 263

  custom of justices shaking hands, 271

  dissenting and concurring opinions, 344–48, 403, 516n24

  group photographs, 269, 361, 402

  jurisdiction, 349, 401–3, 405, 415

  messengers, 260–61

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise History, 454–55

  political attacks on, 405

  “returns” of justices’ opinions, 266

  salaries, 228

  schedule, 6, 262–63

  secretaries and clerks, 313 (see also secretaries (law clerks), OWH’s)

  see also Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr.: AS U.S. SUPREME COURT JUSTICE; names of specific cases in Index of Court Cases; names of individual justices

  Supreme Judicial Court, Massachusetts

  caseload and jurisdiction, 183–84, 193

  circuit schedule, 184

  judicial dress, 253

  OWH’s practice before, 156

  salaries, 227

  tradition of unanimity, 222, 230

  see also Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr.: ON MASSACHUSETTS SUPREME JUDICIAL COURT; names of specific cases in Index of Court Cases; names of individual justices

 

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