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were to be asserted in a series of moves, some successful and some not,
but all dedicated to shifting the center of financial parer ta Washfng-
ton from New Yo&.
Felix Frankfurter took his law degree from Harvard in 1906,
and. entered the pr~ctice of law under Henry L. Stfmson, then United
States zttorney at New Yark. After eight years in public practtce, he
was called to the Iiarvard Law School, where he rerained until President
Roosevelt appointed him to the United States Supreme Court In 1939.
Politically he was first identified with the Bull Moose Party, support-
ing such progrms as public hydro-electric power and refosmed welfare
and tabor legislation. During these years he briefed and sonretimes
argued be£ ore the Supra Court cases arf sing under welfare law. &
worked to elect Franklin Roosevelt in 1932, ~ nd according to HT. SchZe-
singer, declined the Pres16entes offer to appoint bin Sollteitor General
in 1933, saying that he could be EOXe helpful to the new AQninistration
as a "pmfeasorlsl (According to his biographical ee-
count in Who's Who he had cieclined Governor Ely8s offer of anvappointment
to the Supratie Judicial Court of Ksssachusetts in 1932.) Fie a~&d the
Administration by sending to Washington young and brilliant attormyis
for government service who probably would have gone into private practice
in normal tfmes.
In the early years of she New Deal Frankfurter and hfs mentor
and friend,Hr, Justice Tauis D. Brandeis, disapproved of the basic social
and economic policies of the national planners inwashington. bter their
oun policles -me to the fore. Frankfurter, quoted by Hr. Schfesinger as
saying in 1931 that governrrent eqenditures not matched by revenues shoved
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