One evening last week Willis Van Devanter sat in his apartment at No. 2101 Connecticut Avenue, Washington, D. C. engaged in literary composition. The fruit of his evening's work was one sentence, containing over 100 words. It began: "Having held my commission as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the U. S. and served in that court for 26 years, and having come to be 78 years of age. . . ."
Twenty-six years on the Court is a long time, longer than that of any other present Justice but not so...
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