JUDICIARY: Massachusetts Judge

Last week Governor Joseph Buell Ely of Massachusetts appointed Felix Frankfurter, Harvard Law School's famed liberal, to be a justice of the State Supreme Court. Professor Frankfurter. 49,

Austrian-born, had the endorsement of such U. S. Supreme Court lights as Oliver Wendell Holmes, Louis Dembitz Brandeis and Benjamin Nathan Cardozo, who mar ried Mr. & Mrs. Frankfurter. After his graduation from Harvard Law School in 1906, Felix Frankfurter served as an assistant U. S. attorney in the south ern district of New York. Five years later he was appointed law officer of the...

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