National Affairs: Hughes v. Brandcis

Chief Justice Hughes has a Republican son practicing law in Manhattan. Associate Justice Brandeis has a Democratic daughter practicing law in Manhattan. Last week while their fathers sat amicably together on the U. S. Supreme Court bench, Charles Evans Hughes Jr. and Susan Brandeis campaigned vigorously against each other for their respective presidential candidates.

Miss Brandeis, plump and fortyish, is the wife of Lawyer Jacob Gilbert, mother of two boys and a girl. Bryn Mawr graduated her in 1915. Last week she appeared before 400 women, including Mrs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, at Manhattan's...

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