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INDEX
Oral History of Abe Krash
7-Up Company, 134, 141
Adamson v. California case, 98
Agger, Carol, 85, 112, 118
Alaska, 138
ALL detergent case, 92-94, 101, 104
Allison, Jinx (granddaughter), 139
Altria. See Philip Morris
American Brands, 136
American Broadcasting Company, 141
American Cyanamid, 110
American Tobacco, 108
Lucky Strikes, 131
Anheuser Busch, 129-130
Arnold & Porter, 71, 86-87, 94, 108, 118, 122, 132, 140-141, 146, 148, 155, 157, 160, 164
Antitrust Practice Group, 146
Compensation Committee, 146
Policy Committee, 146
Arnold, Fortas & Porter, 39, 43, 65, 67, 73, 75, 78-79, 81, 86, 88, 107, 112, 132
Arnold, Thurman, 42-43, 65, 70-73, 79- 81, 86, 88, 107, 118, 122, 128
Department of Justice Antitrust Division, 76
Folklore of Capitalism, The, 70
Loyalty Review Board, 80
personality, 71
Symbols of Capitalism, The, 70
United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
appointed, 75
resignation, 75
Yale professor, 75
Auto Safety Act, 140
Baker, Bobby, 106
Banana case, 104
Banzhaf case, 120-121
Banzhaf, John, 119-120
Barron v. Baltimore case, 98
Bazelon, Judge David, 61, 67, 82, 127, 165
appointed to U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, 61
head of Department of Justice Office of Alien Property, 61
Becker, Len, 164
Bell, Daniel, 21
Bendix Corporation, 115-116
Berger, Paul, 164
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Berger, Raoul, 39, 59, 65, 67, 127
Charles Warren Senior Fellow in American Legal History, 64
Cook & Berger law firm, 60
General Counsel of the Office of Alien Property Custodian, 60
professional musician, 61
violins, 62-63
Betts v. Brady case, 96, 97, 103
Bill of Rights, 46, 98, 102
Biography of President Johnson, 106
Bittker, Professor Boris, 59-60
Black, Justice Hugo, 46, 84, 89, 98, 102-103, 106
Bleakley, Peter, 164
Blum, Professor Walter, 44, 50
Born, Brooksley, 164
Brandeis, Justice Louis, 47
Brennan, Justice William, 164
Bring, Murray, 164
Brody, David, 30
Bronx Public Defenders, 101
Brown & Williamson, 108
Brown, Professor Ernest, 47
Bunn, George, 65, 92
Burlington Railroad, 13
Burton Judson Court, 20, 52
Cambodia, 138
Caro, Robert, 105
Biography of President Johnson, 106
Changing Legal Profession, The (article), 157
Chapman, Jerome, 164
Charlestown, South Carolina, 101
Chesterfields cigarettes. See Liggett & Myers
Cheyenne, Wyoming
country club, 8
ethic diversity, 5
Fort Francis E. Warren, 3, 11, 13
Frontier Days, 5, 8
prejudice, 8
thriving Jewish community, 3
Tribune, 6
World War II expansion, 3
Chicago Office of Military Intelligence, 29
Chicago Tribune, 31, 52, 53
China, 138-139
Beijing, 145
Forbidden City, 145
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Chungking, 144
Cigarette Labeling Act, 120, 121
Clark, Judge Charles, 58, 70
Clark, Justice Tom, 103
Clayton Act, 92, 115
Colgate-Palmolive Company, 77, 135
antitrust suit, 66-67
Colorado, 17, 83, 138
Complex Litigation at Yale, 128
Compton, Arthur Holly, 28, 29
Chairman of the Division Physical Sciences at the University of Chicago, 25
President of Washington University, 28
Cook, Donald, 63
Cook & Berger law firm, 60
Security and Exchange Commission (SEC), 60
Covington & Burling, 69, 157
Cox, Archibald, 94, 163
Crick, Francis, 22
Crosskey, William Walter
and James Madison’s writings, 46
and Oliver Wendell Holmes, 47
and the Articles of Constitution, 46
law clerk to Chief Justice Taft, 44
original understanding of the constitution, 45
Politics and the Constitution, 45
regulation of commerce, 45-46
University of Chicago Law School, 44-50, 64, 102
Curzan, Mike, 164
Cutler, Lloyd, 163
D.C. Bar Association, 83
segregation, 84-86
D.C. Bar Journal, 156
Davis Polk, 44, 45
Davis, John W.
1924 Democratic Party presidential candidate, 44
Solicitor General of the United States, 44
Davis, Judge John, 110
Dawson, Judge Archie, 92-94
Democracy and Distrust, 95
Depression, 3, 39, 51
Diamond, Norman, 65, 66, 88
Dinsmore & Shol, 94
Director, Aaron, 42, 51
Dirksen, Senator Everett, 113
Donohue, Jiggs, 67
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Douglas, Justice William, 74, 75, 91, 103
Due Process and Equal Protection issues, 154
Duluth, Minnesota, 5
Durham case, 69, 75, 81, 103
insanity defense, 68
standard of criminal responsibility, 67
Dworkin, Professor Arnold, 148
Eagle, The, 6, 24
Eisenhower, President Dwight David, 63
Ely, John Hart, 95, 100
Democracy and Distrust, 95
England, 46, 68, 91, 138, 142
Esquire magazine, 14
fairness doctrine, 119-120, 125, 157
Federal Communications Commission (FCC), 119-121, 157
Federal Trade Commission (FTC), 115
tobacco companies, 109
federalism issue, 99
Federated Department Stores, 94, 109, 115, 123
Fermi, Professor Enrico, 22, 25, 27, 29
Nobel Prize winner, 21
First Amendment, 44, 79, 89, 98, 154
Ford Motor Company, 55, 140
Ford, President Gerald, 125
Fort Francis E. Warren, Wyoming, 3, 11, 13
Fort Monmouth case, 80
Fortas, Abe, 39, 43, 65- 69, 71, 73- 79, 81-82, 85- 88, 90, 91-92, 94- 96, 99-109, 112-115, 122,
132, 135, 163
advisor to President Lyndon Johnson, 107
Southwestern College, 75
teaching at American University, 114
Under Secretary, United States Department of the Interior, 75
United States Supreme Court
Associate Justice, 73, 108
resignation, 117-118
Yale Law Journal editor in chief, 75
Fourteenth Amendment, 64, 98, 99, 102, 148, 154
Fourth Amendment, 98
FRAM, 115, 116
France, 46, 138, 142
Frank, Judge Jerome, 75
Frankfurt, Germany, 133-134
Freed, Daniel, 57
Freedom of Religion, 154
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Freedom of Speech, 154
Freeman, Francesca (granddaughter), 139
Freeman, Milton, 65, 124
Freeman, Rachel (granddaughter), 139
Freeman, Zachary (grandson), 139
Friendly, Judge Henry, 164
Friends of the Law Library of Congress, 143
Frost, Robert, 71
Garland, United States Court of Appeals Chief Judge Merrick, 164
General Foods, 134, 141, 147
Georgetown Law Center, 48, 86, 117, 152, 153, 154, 155, 156
Gerard, Professor Ralph W., 22
Germany, 26, 30, 50, 131, 133, 142
Gessel, Judge Gerhard, 165
Gideon case, 74-75, 88, 94, 101-104, 166
federalism issue, 97-98
fiftieth anniversary, 166
”special circumstances”, 97
Gideon, Clarence Earl, 94
Gideon’s Trumpet, 103
Glucksberg v. Washington case, 150, 152
assisted suicide, 147
Goebel, Professor Julius, 47
Goldberg, Justice Arthur, 107-108
Goldstein, Abraham (Abe), 61, 67, 127
Government Loyalty and Security Program, 78
Haloid Xerox, 159
Hamilton, Walton, 65
Hanson, Peter, 17
Harlan, Justice John, 103
Hart, Frederick, 95, 100-101, 153
Hart, Professor Henry, 47
Harvard Law Review, 33
Hawaii, 10, 138
Hawke, Jerry, 164
Hillel, 52
Howard University, 48
Hutchins, Robert, 31-32
Dean Yale Law School, 33
influence on Abe Krash pursuing law, 33
President of the University of Chicago, 1
IBM, 134, 137
Ickes, Harold, 75
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incorporation controversy, 98
insanity defense, 67, 82
International Herald Tribune, 108
Japan, 138, 144
Hiroshima, 29-30
Nagasaki, 30
Johnson v. Zerbst case, 96
Johnson, Lyndon
election to the United States Senate, 106
Texas Senate seat race of 1948, 105
Vice-President of the United States, 104
Journal of Commerce, 83
Judicial College, Reno, Nevada, 166
Kalman, Laura, 74, 117
Kalven, Harry, 44, 50
Kaplan, Abraham (uncle), 57
Chairman of the Department of Philosophy at UCLA, 18
University of Chicago, 18
Time magazine, 18
Kaplan, Florence (mother), 4
Katz, William, 42-43, 50
Kellogg Company, 147
Kennedy, President John F., 104
Kentoff, David, 164
Kimpton, Lawrence, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 32
Kirkland & Ellis, 163
Knight, Frank, 22
Kraft Company, 141, 146-147
Krash, Abe – Personal
classical education, 36
childhood
Irish Setter, 15
deficiencies in education, 35
desirability of liberal education, 37
high school
Denver debate championship, 14
friendships, 17
Gibson, Miss (English teacher), 9
Lariat student newspaper, 6
Rice, Miss (debate coach), 9
Wyoming state oratory championship, 9
influence of the World War II, 10
married, 82
Menominee, Michigan (birthplace), 1
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parents married 1926, 5
Ph.B. degree, 34
quality of high school education, 9
sports editor of The Eagle, 6
Sunday school teacher, 31
travels
Alaska, 138
Berlin, 142
Budapest, 62, 142
China, 138-139
Beijing, 145
Forbidden City, 145
Chungking, 144
England, 142
France, 142
Galapagos, 138
Hawaii, 10, 138
Iron Curtain, 138
Israel, 4, 9, 138
Italy, 71, 138
Greece, 76, 138
Prague, 142
Truro, Massachusetts (Cape Cod), 137
University of Chicago, 18-23, 29- 35, 39-40, 45, 49, 51-54, 57, 60, 107, 139
admissions process, 19
atomic research, 20, 22, 26-30
Big Ten, 31
emphasis on learning how to think, 21
mandatory curriculum, 20
waited on tables, 31
“wet behind the ears,” 35
University of Chicago Law School, 39
admission, 33
mandatory curriculum, 41
World War II influence
Japanese relocation center, 12
Pearl Harbor, 10
rationing, 12, 13
turned down by draft, 30
writing experience, 36
Wyoming state oratory champion, 6
Yale Law School, 39
Krash, Abe – Professional
Arnold & Porter
retirement from management responsibilities, 146
changes in the courts
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alternative resolution, 161
financial pressures, 161
judges more skeptical of lawyers, 161
Changing Legal Profession, The (article), 157
D.C. Bar Association, 83
District of Columbia Crime Commission, 114
Philip Morris, 108
qualities prized among lawyers
capacity to persist, 166
good judgment, 165-166
moral courage, 165
imagination, 166
inter-personal relations, 166
preparation, 165
sabbatical, 141-142
Paris, France, 142
teaching at George Washington Law School, 87
thoughts concerning legal profession changes
client views of lawyers, 159
competition, 157
corporate mode, 160
demographics, 158
growth law firm size, 157
specialization, 87, 124, 157
technology, 158-160
Krash, Carla (daughter), 83, 137, 139
Krash, Esomor (brother), 10
Krash, Hadassah (sister), 9
Krash, Hyman (father)
Butrimonis, Lithuania (birthplace), 1
Farrell, Pennsylvania, 4
Fort Warren, Cheyenne, Wyoming chaplain, 11
personality
pride in son, 8
soft spoken and scholarly., 3
rabbi in charge in Cheyenne, 2
religious background, 1
Salt Lake City, Utah, 2
twin sister, 1
killed in Holocaust, 2
Washington Highlands Jewish Center, 4
Krash, Jessica (daughter), 83, 137-139
Lady Chatterley’s Lover, 91
Land, Stuart, 72, 132, 164
Laramie, Wyoming, 7, 17, 70, 138
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Laswell, Harold, 56
Lattimore case, 81
Lattimore, Professor Owen, 81
Lee, Joan (wife), 82, 127, 137, 138
interest in Chinese medicine, 145
Journal of Commerce, 83
Ph.D. at American University, 139
Washington School of Psychiatry, 139
Leventhal, Judge Harold, 165
Lever Brothers, 77, 92-94, 109, 133, 135-137
antitrust suit, 66-67
Levi, Edward, 42, 44, 46, 50, 67, 107
Attorney General of the United States, 41
University of Chicago Law school Professor, 41
University of Chicago President, 41
Lewis, Anthony, 103
Gideon’s Trumpet, 103
Life magazine, 117
Liggett & Myers, 108
Chesterfields, 131
Light Beer, 130
Lippmann, Walter, 32
Lipton tea, 133
London, England, 133, 142, 162
Lonely Crowd, The, 33
Lorillard Tobacco Company, 109
Lowenbrau beer, 131
Lucky Strikes. See American Tobacco
Lyons, Dennis, 132, 164
Madison, Wisconsin, 4
Manhattan Project, 25, 27, 29
Margolis, Dan, 163
Marinette, Wisconsin, 1
Marlboro cigarettes. See Philip Morris
Maroon, The, 24-26, 28-30, 32, 36, 52
breach of the security regulations, 25
Mayflower Hotel, 84
McAlee, Jim, 164
McCarthy, Senator Joseph, 80
McCracken, Tracy
head of delegation to Democratic convention 1960, 6
University of Wyoming alumnus, 7
Wyoming newspapers and radio stations, 6-7
McDougal, Myers, 56
McGovern, Bill, 65-67, 69, 77, 78, 88- 90, 92, 94, 110
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McGowan, Patricia (Wald), 57, 65, 69, 73
clerked for Judge Jerome Frank, 65
leave of absence from Arnold, Fortas & Porter, 65
Medal of Freedom, 70, 163
McKesson and Robbins Company, 110-111, 116
Meister Brau, 130
Melchior, Kurt, 57
military intelligence, 25
Miller Beer, 109, 115, 122, 129-131, 134, 141
Miller, Reed, 65, 129
Minow, Newton, 120
M’Naghten case, 68
psychiatric literature, 69
Monsanto Chemical Company, 92, 141
Montgomery, Bruce, 164
Murphy, John, 130
Nabisco Cereals antitrust suit, 146
National Student Marketing case, 123
New Castle, Pennsylvania, 19
New York, New York 14
New York Times, 32
New Yorker (magazine), 29
Newark, New Jersey, 77-78
Noerr-Pennington doctrine, 121-122
Northwestern University, 31
Novik, Ylda, 83
O’Brien, John Lord, 81
O’Connor, Justice Sandra Day, 143
obscenity case, 89
Olson, Elder, 23, 32
Oriel College, 142
Oxford University, 142
Paris, France, 142
Parker, Judge Barrington, 124
Paul Porter, 65, 75, 76, 122
Paul, Weiss, 112
Pearl Harbor, 10
Peters, Dr. John, 79-80
Peters case, 81
Pfizer, 110
Philip Morris, 115, 122, 129, 134, 136-137, 141, 146
Marlboro cigarettes, 109, 131, 136
Pitofsky, Bob, 152
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Playboy magazine, 88- 89
photos in amicus brief, 90
Plotkin, Harry, 65
Politics and the Constitution, 45
Porter, Paul, 73, 76, 79, 122
Posner, Judge Richard, 164
Pound, Ezra
found mentally incompetent, 71
indicted for treason, 71
radio speeches, 71
Powell v. Alabama case, 96
Procter & Gamble, 77, 93, 135-137
Procter & Gamble antitrust case, 66-67
psychiatry, 51, 67-69, 82
Public Defenders of Charleston, South Carolina, 166
R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, 108
Camels cigarettes, 131
Reich, Charles, 89, 90
Reno, Nevada, 101
Rezneck, Daniel, 116, 124, 126, 164
Rheinstein, Max, 50
Riesman, Professor David, 21, 32
Lonely Crowd, The, 33
Robinson-Patman Act, 163
Rockler, Walter, 164
Rogers, Bill, 81, 132, 164
Rostow, Eugene, 53, 54, 55, 67
Roth case, 89, 91, 104
Rowe, Fred, 163
Ruff, Charles, 126
Russell, Senator Richard, 18, 113, 114
Sailors, Ken, 13
Sass, Sherman, 57
Scalia, Justice Antonin, 49
Schlesinger, Arthur, 106
Schmults, Ed, 125, 126
Schwab, Professor Joseph, 23, 32
segregation in Washington, 84
Shadur, Judge Milton, 50
Sharp, Professor Malcolm, 51
Sherman & Sterling, 159
Sherman Act, 66, 77
Shulman, Professor Harry, 55
Simons, Professor Henry, 51
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Sirica, Judge John J., 112
Sixth Amendment, 96, 99, 102
Souter, Justice David H., 151
Spaeth, Melvin, 164
Sperry Rand, 134, 137
Sporkin, Judge Stanley, 124
St. Louis, Missouri, 28, 134, 141, 142
Stagg, Alonzo, 31
Star Chamber, 79
Stein, Jake, 84
Steiner, George, 22
Stevens, Justice John Paul, 150
Stevenson, Coke, 105
Strauss, Alan, 30
student newspaper business manager, 24
Sturges, Professor Wesley Alba, 55-56
Superior Oil Company, 111, 112
Surf detergent, 136
Surgeon General
tobacco companies, 109
Surgeon General’s report, 136
Symbols of Capitalism, The, 70
Szilard, Professor Leo, 27
technology, 135, 158, 160
Tefft, Professor Sheldon, 44
Temple, Ralph, 95, 100, 101
Thomas, Justice Clarence, 21, 49
Thurman, Arnold
Folklore of Capitalism, The, 70
head of the United States Department of Justice Antitrust Division, 70
Laramie, Wyoming, 17, 70
Symbols of Capitalism, The, 70
United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, 71
University of West Virginia Law School, 70
Yale University, 70
Tiananmen Square, 145
Tide detergent, 77, 135, 136
Truman, President Harry, 61, 78
Truro, Massachusetts (Cape Cod), 137
Unilever, 115, 122, 133
Union Pacific Railroad (U.P.), 3, 13
United Auto Workers, 55
United Fruit Company, 86
United States Court of Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, 71
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United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, 116
United States District Court (Chicago), 50
United States Steel Company, 141
United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), 60, 65, 74, 75, 117, 123, 124, 157
United States Supreme Court, 47, 74, 78, 84, 87-89, 91, 94, 98, 104-107, 112, 117, 122, 143,
147, 149, 154-155, 166
Univac, 134, 159,
Sperry Rand
Universal Brands case, 131
University of Chicago, 18-23, 29- 35, 39-40, 45, 49, 51-54, 57, 60, 107, 139
admissions process, 19
atomic research, 20, 22, 26-30
Big Ten, 31
emphasis on learning how to think, 21
Hutchins, President Robert, 1
mandatory curriculum, 20
University of Chicago Law School, 39
diversity of student body, 40
mandatory curriculum, 41
Record, 48
University of Illinois, 31, 34
University of Michigan, 18, 31, 34, 50
University of Minnesota Law School, 58
University of Wyoming, 6, 7, 14, 17, 70
1994 National Collegiate Basketball Championship, 13
Viet Nam, 108, 138
Vieth, Duane (Bud), 66, 72, 88, 108, 109, 123, 132, 164
Wald, Douglas, 70
Wald, Patricia. See McGowan, Patricia
Wald, Robert (Bob), 57, 65, 163
Wald, Sarah, 70
Warren, Justice Earl, 113
Washington Post, 30
Washington School of Psychiatry, 139
Watson, James, 22
Wechsler, Professor Herbert, 153
Weiner, Robert, 164
Weinfeld, Judge Edward, 164
Westwood, Howard, 163
White & Case, 123, 124, 125, 126
Wickersham Award, 143
Willens, Howard, 115
Williams, Edward Bennett, 126, 163
Winchell, Karl, 6, 17, 83
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father figure, 8
“go east,” 18
high school principal, 5
Winnett, Nochem S., 110
Winter, Robert, 124, 164
Wiprud, Arne, 71
Wolfson College (Oxford University), 142
Wolfson, Louis, 117
Wood, Judge Kimba, 147
World War II
influence on Abe Krash, 39
newspaper staffing, 6
A Worthy Tradition Freedom of Speech in America, 44
Wyoming, 3, 5, 6, 7, 12, 13, 14, 17, 39, 40, 70, 138
Yale Law School
diversity, 57
fellowship, 25, 26, 54-59, 85
graduate studies, 33, 44, 52-54, 57, 66, 70, 75, 95, 101, 127-129, 143, 166
Yangtze River, 144
Youngdahl, Judge Luther, 81