Sutherland, Arthur E., 47, 310, 317, 320, 435, 480n70
Sutherland, Justice George, 402, 412
Switzerland, OWH’s visits to, 141–42, 159, 217
Symposium (Plato), 332
Taft, William Howard, 402
antilabor views, 404–5
appointments to Court by, 322–23, 335–36
and Brandeis, 356, 403, 405, 409
disdain for dissenting opinions, 403, 405
dislike of presidency, 401, 403
effectiveness as chief justice, 401–6
and Fanny Holmes’s death and funeral, 439
illness and death, 443, 444–45
and Learned Hand, 366
and McReynolds, 360, 361, 403–4,
OWH’s comment about Rockefeller to, 298–99
progressive opposition to, 328, 329–30
and reform of appeals process, 401–2
relations with OWH, 401, 403, 404, 405–6, 409, 420, 435, 439
and Virginia sterilization case, 430
Taney, Justice Roger B., 438
tariffs, 255
Taunton (Mass.), 201
taxation
courts’ revision of assessments, 196
income tax, 268, 269, 523n22
inheritance taxes, 410, 445
and judges’ salaries, 523n22
on out-of-state property, 297, 445
on patent royalties, 523n22
property taxes, 196, 296–97
Temple, Mary (“Minny”), 146–47, 146, 178, 343, 482–83n56
Tennant, Margot (later Lady Asquith), 218, 308
Tennessee
pollution from copper plants, 301
regulation of gasoline prices, 410
Texas
noxious weed regulation, 296
whites-only primary, 433
textile industry, 26, 51, 65, 68, 132, 197, 221–22, 254, 362, 389
“textualism,” 21, 200, 288, 342
Teyte, Maggie, 319
Thackeray, William Makepeace, 135
Thayer, James B.
essay on judicial restraint, 287–88, 293, 296
and OWH’s chair at Harvard, 167, 179–80, 181–82
and revisions to Kent’s Commentaries, 163–64, 165, 166–67
Thayer, Judge Webster, 194, 425
Theis, Louis, 88
Thirteenth Amendment, 269
Thomas, Arthur A., 20, 453, 522n1
Threads of Life (Rollins), 213–14
Three Cities (Asch), 443
Thucydides, 8
ticket scalping, 410, 449
Ticknor and Fields, 49
Time, 421, 422
Titanic, 325
tolerance, political, 21, 369, 370, 375–76, 389–90, 393
Tolstoy, Leo, 333
Tom Brown’s School Days (Hughes), 159
torts and tort law
and community standards, 174–76, 233
draconian rules in, 432, 433
negligence and liability, 173–76, 346
and role of jury, 175, 233–34, 431–32
and standards of conduct set by courts, 173, 175–76, 234, 431–32
see also libel
trademarks, 12, 246
Travellers Club, 250
Tremlett, Capt. Henry, 92–93
Tremont Temple (Boston), 69
trial, right to fair, 290, 350–51, 418–19, 427–28, 459
Trollope, Anthony, 3, 88, 159
Tschingel Glacier, 141–42
Twain, Mark, 9, 25, 42
Tweeddale, Lady (Marguerite, née Ralli; Lewis Einstein’s stepdaughter), 455
Twentieth Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry
at Antietam, 93–96, 100–101
averse to seeking publicity, 455
at Ball’s Bluff, 79–85, 81, 82, 88–89, 90, 92
casualties, 72, 89, 96, 103, 105, 110, 133
ethnic tensions in, 76–78, 89–90, 104
formation of, 74, 76, 78–79
at Fredericksburg, 103–5, 107–8
at Gettysburg, 72, 73, 109–11
in Overland Campaign, 117, 133
in Peninsula Campaign, 91–93
problems of promotion in, 89–90, 104, 109
pro-southern sympathies in, 77–78, 89–90, 101–2, 105, 111
veterans’ reunions, 107
U.S. Sanitary Commission, 137
U.S. Steel Corporation, 320
U.S. Supreme Court, see Supreme Court, U.S.
Umbria, S.S., 250
Under the Cedars and Stars (Sheehan), 285
unions, see labor and labor law
Unitarianism
among Boston elite, 29, 32, 62, 66
failures of, 131–32, 134, 137
opposition to sectarianism and doctrine, 64, 134
optimism and idealism, 3, 30–31, 62
origin of, 29–30
and self-improvement, 63
and slavery, 65–68
and social duty, 28–31, 63–65
University Quarterly, 60
Upham, Dorothy (daughter of Oliver Wendell Holmes Upham; first cousin once removed of OWH), 206, 215, 304, 309–10, 310, 453
Upham, George, 153
Upham, Oliver Wendell Holmes (first cousin of OWH), 309
Upham, William P. (first cousin of OWH), 309
urbanization, problems of, 196–98
usury, 222, 294
Utah, limit on working hours in mines, 292
vaccination, compulsory, 294, 370, 429
Valentine, Robert G., 328–29, 328
Van Devanter, Justice Willis, 336, 337, 402, 411, 412, 466
Vanzetti, Bartolomeo, 425–28
Vaughan, Dorothy, see Upham, Dorothy
Vaughan, Thomas W., 310
Veblen, Thorston, 376
Vegelahn, Frederick, 241
Very Good, Jeeves (Wodehouse), 7
Virginia, sterilization law, 14–15, 428–30
Virginia State Colony for Epileptics and Feebleminded, 428, 429
visitation rights, parental, 188–89
Voltaire, 7
voting rights, 131, 413–14, 433
wage and hour laws, 222–23, 291–92, 357, 361–62, 412, 458, 459
Wagner, Richard, 194, 424
Ward, Thomas H., 162
warranties, implied, 164
Warren, Samuel, 179
Warrenton (Va.), 102
Washington, Booker T., 248
Washington, D.C.
in Civil War, 79–80, 102, 125, 259
lackadaisical pace of tradesmen, 286
local statutes, see under District of Columbia
1918 flu pandemic, 377
OWH’s homes in: 14 Lafayette Square, 265, 270, 281; 1720 Eye Street, 280, 286–87, 306–13, 307, 308, 311, 408
parks and streets, 259–60
political atmosphere, 278–79
segregation, 261, 275, 413
society and social rules, 273–79, 318–19
Washington Monument, 307
Washington Post, 274, 276
Washington State, wiretapping law, 434
water pollution and conservation, 198, 301, 447
Webb, Beatrice, 373
Webster, Daniel, 67, 424
Weld, William, Jr., 180, 182
Wells, H. G., 218
Wendell, Jacob (great-grandfather of OWH), 51
Weston, Dixon, 259
Whig party, 67, 68
White, E. B., 442
White, Justice Edward Douglass, 269, 336
and dissents, 344, 345
friendship with OWH, 266, 270, 271, 275, 343
on isolation of justices, 400–401
named chief justice, 322–23, 335
OWH’s appraisal of, 337, 343
and OWH’s free speech dissent, 382
on OWH’s lack of public reputation, 324
and pipeline case, 340
secretaries, 313
slippery slope arguments, 342–43
Whit
e, G. Edward, 496n32
White House, 275, 277, 278, 279, 299, 301, 302, 309, 399, 424, 501n61
white primaries, 433
white supremacy, 68, 413–14
Whitehead, Alfred North, 31, 332
Whitman, Walt, 129
Whittier, Charles, 108, 112–13
Whitworth rifle, 479n55
Wickersham, George W., 268
Wigglesworth, Isabella, 210
Wigglesworth, Mary Dixwell, 203
Wigmore, John, 393, 426
Wilde, Oscar, 9, 161, 218
Wilderness, Battle of the, 71, 115–18, 133
Wilderness Tavern, 115, 116
will cases, 190–91, 192, 196
Wilson, Woodrow
appointments to the Court, 355, 359–60, 411
election, 335, 353
Laski’s fabricated tales of meeting, 373
OWH unimpressed by, 399
Wilton House, 219
Windsor (Vt.), 248
wiretapping, 433–35, 520n33
Wisconsin, inheritance tax statute, 410
Wister, Owen, 59, 183, 208, 217
Wodehouse, P. G., 7, 443
women’s suffrage, 131, 372
“Wonderful One-Hoss-Shay, The” (Holmes Sr.), 42
Wood, John F., 191–92
Woolf, Leonard, 373–74
Woolf, Virginia, 2, 7
Woollcott, Alexander, 479–80n70
Worcester (Mass.), 184, 194
workers’ compensation, 397, 435
workplace safety, 222, 291–92, 397
World War I
draft and recruiting, 368, 377–78
Lewis Einstein’s prediction of, 280
OWH’s feelings about, 123, 363–65, 385–86
see also Espionage Act of 1917; free speech
Wright, Chauncey, 149, 151
Wright, Gen. Horatio C., 112, 121
writ of certiorari, 402–3, 438
writ of error, 349, 402
Wu, John C. H.
OWH’s remarks to: reality of war, 93; test of an idealist, 131; “imaginary society of jobbists,” 137; loneliness of original work, 152; “sticking to the rugged course,” 153; rights a matter of feet and inches, 297
on OWH as skeptical skeptic, 151
OWH subsidizes Harvard lectureship, 398
urges OWH to write memoir, 455
Wyanoke Neck (Va.), 116, 125
Yankee from Olympus (Bowen), 501n58
yellow-dog contracts, 302, 348, 458
Yorktown (Va.), 91
Zane, John M., 341, 436
Zobel, Hiller B., 194, 487–88n19
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