Although he did not tell the president, Minton informed the members of the Court that his duties were too taxing on his health.

Minton wrote a letter to the Senate Judicial Committee answering several of their questions, but refused to submit himself to a hearing.

Phil Minton set passages of the Wake to music, on his 1998 album Mouthfull of Ecstasy.

* Horlick Minton is the new American ambassador to San Lorenzo, whom John meets on a plane.

* Sherman Minton, United States Attorney General and Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, was born in Georgetown on October 20, 1890.

The Collegiate Institute was located on the site of the present Presbyterian Church, on property sold to the private school by George L. Minton.

Handed down as a 6-2 decision by the Court on June 4, 1951, the judgment and a plurality opinion was delivered by Chief Justice of the United States Fred M. Vinson, who was joined by Justices Stanley Forman Reed, Sherman Minton, and Harold H. Burton.

An advocate of judicial restraint, Minton was a regular supporter of the majority opinions during his early years on the Court ; he became a regular dissenter after President Dwight Eisenhower's appointees altered the Bench's composition.

Sherman Minton was born on October 20, 1890, to John Evan and Emma Livers Minton in their Georgetown, Indiana, home.

Minton's paternal grandfather, Jonathan Minton, was killed during the American Civil War and his father grew up on his own.

Minton was intent on attending college ; during the summer of 1910, he took a job as a Swift Company salesman in the Fort Worth area to help pay his way.

In 1917, just after the United States declared war on Germany and entered World War I, Minton enlisted in the United States Army.

Minton and his unit served on the Western Front at Verdun, Soissons, and later protecting supply lines in Belgium.

With the support of McNutt, Minton won the nomination on the third ballot with 827 votes to Peters ' 586.

He continued using the slogan, and on September 11, Minton delivered his infamous " You Cannot Eat the Constitution " speech, in which he concluded the urgent needs of the masses outweighed the need to uphold the constitution.

Gannett, and a large number of allies in newspapers and on radio, immediately began to charge Minton and the Democratic Party with an assault on the freedom of the press.

Frank went on NBC radio stations around the country and lambasted Minton for his rudeness.

Minton delivered six radio addresses on behalf of his party in support of the bill, but public opinion could not be swayed in the Democrats ' favor.

Although Minton supported the Roosevelt administration and became a regular guest at the White House, Minton did oppose the president on some measures.

As World War II neared, Minton took a cautious position on United States involvement.

Willis faulted Minton on a range of topics but focused on the legislation Minton supported while in the Senate.

In September 1945, Minton suffered a heart attack while in Washington ; he was hospitalized for three months at Walter Reed Hospital.

: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of legislation to protect ( a ) whistleblowers and ( b ) press freedom following the injunctions obtained in the High Court by ( i ) Barclays and Freshfields solicitors on 19 March 2009 on the publication of internal Barclays reports documenting alleged tax avoidance schemes and ( ii ) Trafigura and Carter-Ruck solicitors on 11 September 2009 on the publication of the Minton report on the alleged dumping of toxic waste in the Ivory Coast, commissioned by Trafigura.

Minton served as a Justice until October 15, 1956, retiring after 7 years and 3 days of service.

In August 1956, a reporter asked Minton about his preferred candidate in the upcoming presidential election.

Melville Minton, the partner and sales manager of Minton Balch & Co. became acting president and majority stockholder of the firm, until his death in 1956.

The porch leads into the great hall which has a Minton tile floor and a large stone chimney piece.

In 2007, Flynt repeated his $ 1 million offer and also wrote the foreword to Joseph Minton Amann and Tom Breuer's The Brotherhood of Disappearing Pants: A Field Guide to Conservative Sex Scandals, which contained some cases published by Flynt.

During the Depression he learnt to sculpt at Stoke-on-Trent's Art School, which was opposite the Minton factory.

Minton received his basic education in a two-room schoolhouse in Georgetown, which he attended through eighth grade.

The American Expeditionary Forces, Eighty-fourth Division, to which Minton belonged, was dispatched to France in July 1918.

Democratic Senator Edward R. Burke led an effort to defeat the measure and privately accused Minton of damaging the Democrats ' cause, which led Minton to leave the Lobby Investigation Committee.

In response to the court ruling, Minton began drafting a bill which would allow the Supreme Court to declare a law unconstitutional only if seven out the nine justices supported the decision.

Minton sided with Roosevelt, which cost him McNutt's and the Indiana Democratic Party machine's support in his re-election bid.

World War II broke out shortly after Minton joined the court, creating a flood of cases in which legal precedent provided little guidance, including challenges to wartime measures, selective service laws, price controls, rationing and civil liberties.

After Minton joined the U. S. Supreme Court, the decision was appealed to that body ; Minton recused himself from the case, which the court decided to overturn.

In a much criticized majority opinion which Minton co-authored with Judge Major, he stated that the " alien did not have any legal right — status was a political decision to be made by officials in government.

The panel met every two weeks which, along with his responsibilities on the circuit court, kept Minton very busy and afforded him little rest, leading to a deterioration in his health.

Of all the cases in which Minton was involved, he disagreed most with the Youngstown decision and " went into a tirade " during the conference where the decision was made.

Minton abhorred racial segregation and provided a solid vote to strike down the school segregation practices at issue in 1954's landmark case of Brown v. Board of Education ; it was among the few decisions in which he sided against the government.

In United States v. Rabinowitz, Minton wrote the Court's opinion upholding a lower court ruling which allowed police to search automobiles without a warrant, provided there was probable cause to justify the search.

Minton voted to uphold anti-communist legislation during the period of the " red scare ", siding with the majority in 1951's Dennis v. United States, which upheld the conviction of the leader of the U. S. Communist Party.

Minton was lambasted in the media for his endorsement, which he attempted to retract a few days later after being advised to do so by other members of the Court.

After the deaths of Chief Justice Fred M. Vinson and Justice Robert Jackson, Minton found himself with little support for many of his opinions, which led him to begin considering retirement.

Minton is the eponym of the Sherman Minton Bridge, which carries Interstate 64 across the Ohio River, connecting western Louisville, Kentucky with New Albany, Indiana.

Since Minton, justices have tended to serve increasingly longer terms on the court, which has had strong political science implications on the Supreme Court.