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Show FiraonCs'uWte fig NOTED LIBERAL NAMED TO FILL VACANCY LEFT : BY DEATHOF CARDOZO Confirmation in Senate Predicted With Little Opposition; Op-position; Appointment Not Expected to Affect Diviiion on Views WASHINGTON, Jan. S (UP) President Roosevelt today nominated to the United States supreme court Professor Felix Frankfurter, outstanding legal liberal whose Influence long has been an important factor In new deal policy making. Frankfurter, a Jewish scholar whose liberalism attracted a broad following, waa named for the vacancy va-cancy created by death af Benjamin Benja-min Nathan Cardoso, another Jewish Jew-ish liberal of legal renown. The nomination waa sent te tha senate, which must confirm the appointment ap-pointment of the a-year-ol4 Bar vard law acheoi pro feasor. ' ' OssiflrimHeai Looms) ' Senators generally predicted that the nomination would be oonflrmed with little opposition. It was referred re-ferred to tha senate Judiciary committee com-mittee for conaidaraUaa. Republican Republi-can Leader Charles L. McNary (R- . Ore.) announced recently that he would require all major appoints menta to undergo committee scrutiny. scru-tiny. A keen and erudite student ef tha law, a conscientious lawyer aSd personality who aent young attorneys attor-neys Into the new deal, Frankfurter has been termed "the most Influential Influen-tial aingla Individual la- the United States." Frankfurter Is the third, associate supreme court Justice named by President Roosevelt. The other two appointees were Stanley F. Reed and Hugo L. Black. Waits Approval . Frankfurter will not be able to assume his place en tha supreme court until ha is oonflrmed. His appointment will have Bo effect ef-fect on tha oonservatlva-Uberal division di-vision of the court, slnoa ha replaces Cardoso, another liberal. Presume- bly, he will Join Justice Louis D. Brandels and Harlan F. Stone as tha nucleus of court liberals. With the two - Roosevelt appointees-Black appointees-Black and Reed this group will comprise a liberal majority on tha court of at least five. Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes and Associate Justice Owen J. Roberta have combined their votes with this liberal bloa oa key new deal issues before the court in tha last two years. Their general adherence to liberal principles limits lim-its the consistent conservatives to Justices James C. McReynolds and Pierce Butler, survivors of the once dominant conservative majority. Big Influenee ' An adherent of tha school ef liberalism lib-eralism outlined in historic dissents of Brandeia and tha lata Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Frankfurter Frankfur-ter has been a frequent "back door" visitor to the White House in this administration and tha intellectual leader of a powerful group ef young government officials influential in mapping tha couraa of the new deal. Many of his students and pro-, tegea are now in administration policy-making positions. These include in-clude Thorpas Corcoran- and Benjamin Benja-min Cohen, "trouble ahootara" for (Oonttntiea en Pas Twel IColuaia On. I COURT JOB GOES TO FRANKFURTER (OaaUaaae Fnes Pa(a OmI the White Houat who have been credited with originating am) orart-tng orart-tng key legislation sponsored by President Roosevelt, -Others Included Jeeome Frank, - member ef tha securities and ex-J ex-J ehange commission; Dlractor Da-1 Da-1 vld E. LllientheJ ef tha Tannaaata j. alky authority; Calvert Magruder, attorney for tha waira-hour admln-' admln-' Ut ration: former SBC Chairman James M. Land Is, now itaan ef the Harvard law acbool; Judge Harold I Stephana of the circuit court of so lj paala for tha Diatrlct of Columbia, 'x and John G. Winant, former chair j man of tha aoclal security board I and now haad of the International I labor office at Geneva, Bwitaer-I Bwitaer-I land. 5 Menkens t'oneldrrrd "Until Frankfurter's nomination waa announced today, Stephens himself a Frankfurter follower-bad follower-bad been conaidered an outstsnd ing favorite for appointment to the vacancy. Thia situstloa waa baaed a the fact that Btaphana haa western west-ern background lived In Utah until un-til coming here In IMS ae aaetataat ie the attorney general. Today a action leavea only ena mem bar of the court with weatern backgroundButler, whose home waa In Minneaota until he eatab-belied eatab-belied residence here efter being named te the court. Although generally favorable to liberal new policies, Frankfurter reportedly oppoeed Presideat Roosevelt's unaucceaaful attempt to reorganlae the aupreme court Frankfurter at no time eet forth publicly hie poaltion en the court plan, but It waa underatood that he waa antagonistic to the plan. Highly Ploaaed' Senator Oeorge W. Norrie (Ind., Mab ) waa "highly pleased" with tha Bom I nation. Benator Xdentrd R. Surge D., Neb.), ona sf tha conservative bloc frequently In disagreement with the administration, said: "Felut Frankfurter poasaeace the qualifications for tha high office of associate justice of the supreme court I believe ha will be an able Jostled. I shall vote for bis confirmation." confir-mation." Senator Harry . Thuman (D., Mo.) aald: "I think the appointment waa all right. Frankfurter la one of the beat informed lawyers la the country. Ha la wU qualified for the supreme court." Senators Millard X. Ty dings (D lid.) and Bennett C Clark (D Mo.) aald they did not ears to express an plaloa. Excellent One William Green, praaldent of tha Amaricaa Federation of Labor, aid: 'I regard tha nomination aa moat excellent one Senator Joseph C CMahoney (D Wyo.): "I think ha la a vary excellent ex-cellent attorney and will mass (cod Judge." Senator Dennis Chaves ID., t. M.)l "It meets with my approval, bat T w oxi Id turn -prVerred Judge San Brattoa and I think h would have been accepted better." Chairman Henry F. As buret (D, Arts.) of the judiciary committee, which will consider the nomination, commented that "Frankfurter is probably on cf tha moat auperb inteUeeU la the country." Asked whether be thought tha wast ahould have received the ap- rntment, Aahurat said: "Biassed tha man who expects nothing, net- he will never be disappointed." |