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ner eRe Rn a ee FT this life until his re Be court Feb: 14, 1939. H To look at Brandeis in later years he eat in the meonificent £17 fin. w Bupreme Court. Buliding—| er he had taken his desk iamip nothing terindicate the geasea ‘ the once bitter clamor, ‘ Strik- in his bearing and figure, with eyen unruly grag bale rising Z ht eyes, gray Ss e-like pkey $F high forehead, was nothing to indicate “tem- ‘ ental ynfitness.” eR” . fin his keen questioning, as he fianed over the bench and, fin -a @miet tone. delved for facta ; _ arguing attorney, beca with | uly Pistonic canception of truth, we h that “behind everyargu- ment Js someone’s ignorance,” there gas frothing to indicate “violent} 47 7 at ‘Wrought for Ideals: , nship.” v-. A few years later, when War -Fhe root both of the opposition @vithdrew, owing to ill health, 4 the famed justice and to .the partnership of Brandeis, Dunbar eajs for which he stood lies aa far : utter was organized. Thiz ack aS his birth, November 13, ; 489T, marked the beginning { - 1856, at Louisville, Ky., when he in- . phenomenal metamorphosis of hherited a passion for freedom from oung jawyer with everything " his Bohemian-Jewish parents, who | Ziee by forsaking his lucrat fed their homeland after Aghting for ; i practice, gaining everything Eberty, | Fisstine for ideals in which mor . no pa . Father Flees Prague "One of Brandeis’ first crusafes ; His father, Adolf Brandeis, was a the, public was a vain’ attehpt native of Prague, then, as now, the eldtk the Dingley tariff act, | gaprtol of a nation with a past, a ing of this country’s ta ture, but no present. With his policy. . “wife, Fredericka, the elder Brandeis Wext he gained national fa fied bigotry and persecution Jollow- ' @rhen he forced the traction ca ing the great Central European rey- I : pany operating the Boston subw olutionary attempts in 1848. _ ‘ fo take a 20-year lease on ter The tradition of liberty was strong | ‘favorable to the taxpayers, just fn the family. Fredericka Biendeis' | 1 ait was about to walk away witi brother. Louis Dembitz, was ib dela- | dela |@u-year jéase, He reiused to acci “ gate tg] the Republican contention fee from the citizens’ commit in 1860/when he voted for nom- ich he represented. . Anatiowf of Abraham Lincoly. Her “He fought similar battles agaitu father} led a prior revolutionary the Boston @levated Co, an “movement in Poland In 1830, Adolf against the Boston Gas Co., forcin Brandeis, although lving in a Southern community, had strong Union sympathies. A childhood recollection of the future justice was that of his mother secretly car- rying food and medicine to Union soldiers. There was little to distinguish Brandeis’ adolescence from that of other young men in similar cireum- stances, His father made a comfort- able fortune in the grain business, He sent hig son for two yeurs’ Schooling in Saxony, In 1875, how- ever, when he entered Harvard, with Longfellow, Lowell, Dr, Holmes and Emerson still the facility, Brandeis’ brilliance ame aprerent, He graduated wijh an LL.B, at 21, with an exéepional schplastic record. Family forbunes having been reversed, Brandeis’ had worked his way through the law school by tutoring. the latter to adopt «# aliding sce’ by which dividends could increa only as rates diminished. Becomes Wealthy By the turn of the century, Boston Brahmins’ eyebrows duised at the inconceivable of a solicitor for the wealthi lients becoming a champion ¢@f t ipubliy, Brandeis becarpe known ‘asader for public utility 1 4 But although he ¢cngisten! v more and more of his tir Ghe public interest, his A: : 4 So a r