When the Soviet Union invaded Finland, Minton voted against granting a loan to Finland to help finance its defense efforts.

The court voted in an 8 – 0 decision ( Minton abstained ), to overturn the decision.

In 1930, the various Putnam heirs voted to merge the family's publishing firm with Minton, Balch & Co., which became the majority stockholders.

On the death of George H. Putnam in 1930, the various Putnam heirs voted to merge the firm with Minton, Balch & Co. who became the majority stockholders.

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.

According to professor of political science Linda C. Gugin, a Minton biographer, in practice the committee's investigations were politically motivated and directed against groups that were challenging New Deal legislation.

Minton finally introduced legislation that would have made it " illegal to publish information known to be false ".

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

Much of the recently passed New Deal legislation was being tried in the courts for constitutionality and enforcement, putting Minton in the uncommon position of adjudicating cases depending on legislation he had helped write.

: 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.

After Roosevelt's death, President Harry Truman, who had developed a close friendship with Minton during their time together in the Senate, nominated him to the Supreme Court.

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.

As a Justice, Minton frequently played the role of peace-maker and consensus builder during a period when the Court was riven with feuds.

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.

Becoming popular among the party leadership during his two years as commissioner, Minton was encouraged by party leaders to run for the United States Senate in 1934.

Minton was a fierce partisan during his time in the Senate, and regularly abused his opponents verbally.

After Minton left office in January 1941, he was given a position in the Roosevelt administration as a reward for his loyalty during the court packing failure.

The men on the court were close friends, and Minton developed a particularly close friendship with Judge J. Earl Major ; Major offered Minton financial assistance during his later illnesses.

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.

Empirical coding of votes shows that Minton was the most conservative justice on the Court during his first year, and remained in the conservative half of the court for the duration of his career.

Despite his disappointment over the Court's positions on some issues, Minton remained popular among his colleagues on the Court as he didn't take sides in their personal disagreements ; he proved a soothing presence during a period marked by bitter personal feuds between strong personalities such as William O. Douglas and Felix Frankfurter.

A feature of Minton ’ s Playhouse during Teddy Hill ’ s tenure as manager was the popular Monday Celebrity Nights sponsored by the Schiffmans who owned the nearby Apollo Theater.

Although Minton was respected both by the conservative Royal Academy and the modernist London Group, he was out of sympathy with the abstract painting that began to prevail during the 1950s, and he felt increasingly out of touch with current fashion.

Also during the war Vaughan formed friendships with the painters Graham Sutherland and John Minton, with whom after demobilization in 1946 he shared premises.

As seen in most of the buildings in that period, Minton tiles have been used for the college verandah flooring.

In the area of civil liberties, Minton adhered to the doctrine of " fundamental fairness ", a test established by the Supreme Court in 1937.

A lawyer writing for the New Jersey Law Journal labeled Minton a " spokesman against freedom ", calling him " a man of conspicuous judicial shortcomings, whose votes against civil liberties exceeded those of any other man on the Court, and who wrote comparatively few opinions of other kinds.

In a California class action suit filed on February 17, 2005, Minton v. Herbalife International, et al., the plaintiff is " challenging the marketing practices of certain Herbalife International independent distributors and Herbalife International under various state laws prohibiting " endless chain schemes ", insufficient disclosure in assisted marketing plans, unfair and deceptive business practices, and fraud and deceit ".

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The circular tower at the north-west corner contains the octagonal dining room with a Minton tile floor, two fireplaces, and a vault of eight radial ribs running to a central boss.

He is honored ( along with Indiana Senator Sherman Minton ) in the Minton-Capehart federal building by the Indiana World War Memorial Plaza in Indianapolis.

As Minton grew older, he was frequently in trouble with the people in his neighborhood.

In May 1916, Minton returned to New Albany, where he opened a law practice and renewed his relationship with Gurtz.

When the war ended, Minton remained briefly with the Army of Occupation in Germany before being discharged in August 1919.

The cuts received widespread media coverage, and Minton was credited in the reports with the success.

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

With the state party's more direct involvement, Minton won the election with fifty-two percent of the vote.

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.

Minton was involved in many such exchanges, including a particularly fierce one with Republican Senator Lester J. Dickinson in March 1936.

Minton responded with a range of accusations, some personal, against Dickinson and his " political naivety ".

In February 1937, before Minton introduced his bill, President Roosevelt introduced a plan of his own to deal with the Supreme Court.

Minton was pleased with Roosevelt's bill and quickly became its leading supporter in the Senate.

Minton was unhappy with the loss and it cost him considerable support among his voters, but as a result of his close connection with the bill and the leaders of his party, he gained more influence with the Democrats.

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

Minton resigned from his post in the administration, but even after he began working on the court, Minton remained active in Democratic politics behind the scenes and was in regular correspondence with Roosevelt to make patronage suggestions.

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.

Minton wrote the majority opinion and sided with the majority to keep the injunction in place, but dryly mocked the counsel for the defense and the gambling law, stating: