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by Stephen Budiansky


  Sutherland, Arthur E., 47, 310, 317, 320, 435, 480n70

  Sutherland, Justice George, 402, 412

  Switzerland, OWH’s visits to, 141–42, 159, 217

  Symposium (Plato), 332

  Taft, William Howard, 402

  antilabor views, 404–5

  appointments to Court by, 322–23, 335–36

  and Brandeis, 356, 403, 405, 409

  disdain for dissenting opinions, 403, 405

  dislike of presidency, 401, 403

  effectiveness as chief justice, 401–6

  and Fanny Holmes’s death and funeral, 439

  illness and death, 443, 444–45

  and Learned Hand, 366

  and McReynolds, 360, 361, 403–4,

  OWH’s comment about Rockefeller to, 298–99

  progressive opposition to, 328, 329–30

  and reform of appeals process, 401–2

  relations with OWH, 401, 403, 404, 405–6, 409, 420, 435, 439

  and Virginia sterilization case, 430

  Taney, Justice Roger B., 438

  tariffs, 255

  Taunton (Mass.), 201

  taxation

  courts’ revision of assessments, 196

  income tax, 268, 269, 523n22

  inheritance taxes, 410, 445

  and judges’ salaries, 523n22

  on out-of-state property, 297, 445

  on patent royalties, 523n22

  property taxes, 196, 296–97

  Temple, Mary (“Minny”), 146–47, 146, 178, 343, 482–83n56

  Tennant, Margot (later Lady Asquith), 218, 308

  Tennessee

  pollution from copper plants, 301

  regulation of gasoline prices, 410

  Texas

  noxious weed regulation, 296

  whites-only primary, 433

  textile industry, 26, 51, 65, 68, 132, 197, 221–22, 254, 362, 389

  “textualism,” 21, 200, 288, 342

  Teyte, Maggie, 319

  Thackeray, William Makepeace, 135

  Thayer, James B.

  essay on judicial restraint, 287–88, 293, 296

  and OWH’s chair at Harvard, 167, 179–80, 181–82

  and revisions to Kent’s Commentaries, 163–64, 165, 166–67

  Thayer, Judge Webster, 194, 425

  Theis, Louis, 88

  Thirteenth Amendment, 269

  Thomas, Arthur A., 20, 453, 522n1

  Threads of Life (Rollins), 213–14

  Three Cities (Asch), 443

  Thucydides, 8

  ticket scalping, 410, 449

  Ticknor and Fields, 49

  Time, 421, 422

  Titanic, 325

  tolerance, political, 21, 369, 370, 375–76, 389–90, 393

  Tolstoy, Leo, 333

  Tom Brown’s School Days (Hughes), 159

  torts and tort law

  and community standards, 174–76, 233

  draconian rules in, 432, 433

  negligence and liability, 173–76, 346

  and role of jury, 175, 233–34, 431–32

  and standards of conduct set by courts, 173, 175–76, 234, 431–32

  see also libel

  trademarks, 12, 246

  Travellers Club, 250

  Tremlett, Capt. Henry, 92–93

  Tremont Temple (Boston), 69

  trial, right to fair, 290, 350–51, 418–19, 427–28, 459

  Trollope, Anthony, 3, 88, 159

  Tschingel Glacier, 141–42

  Twain, Mark, 9, 25, 42

  Tweeddale, Lady (Marguerite, née Ralli; Lewis Einstein’s stepdaughter), 455

  Twentieth Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry

  at Antietam, 93–96, 100–101

  averse to seeking publicity, 455

  at Ball’s Bluff, 79–85, 81, 82, 88–89, 90, 92

  casualties, 72, 89, 96, 103, 105, 110, 133

  ethnic tensions in, 76–78, 89–90, 104

  formation of, 74, 76, 78–79

  at Fredericksburg, 103–5, 107–8

  at Gettysburg, 72, 73, 109–11

  in Overland Campaign, 117, 133

  in Peninsula Campaign, 91–93

  problems of promotion in, 89–90, 104, 109

  pro-southern sympathies in, 77–78, 89–90, 101–2, 105, 111

  veterans’ reunions, 107

  U.S. Sanitary Commission, 137

  U.S. Steel Corporation, 320

  U.S. Supreme Court, see Supreme Court, U.S.

  Umbria, S.S., 250

  Under the Cedars and Stars (Sheehan), 285

  unions, see labor and labor law

  Unitarianism

  among Boston elite, 29, 32, 62, 66

  failures of, 131–32, 134, 137

  opposition to sectarianism and doctrine, 64, 134

  optimism and idealism, 3, 30–31, 62

  origin of, 29–30

  and self-improvement, 63

  and slavery, 65–68

  and social duty, 28–31, 63–65

  University Quarterly, 60

  Upham, Dorothy (daughter of Oliver Wendell Holmes Upham; first cousin once removed of OWH), 206, 215, 304, 309–10, 310, 453

  Upham, George, 153

  Upham, Oliver Wendell Holmes (first cousin of OWH), 309

  Upham, William P. (first cousin of OWH), 309

  urbanization, problems of, 196–98

  usury, 222, 294

  Utah, limit on working hours in mines, 292

  vaccination, compulsory, 294, 370, 429

  Valentine, Robert G., 328–29, 328

  Van Devanter, Justice Willis, 336, 337, 402, 411, 412, 466

  Vanzetti, Bartolomeo, 425–28

  Vaughan, Dorothy, see Upham, Dorothy

  Vaughan, Thomas W., 310

  Veblen, Thorston, 376

  Vegelahn, Frederick, 241

  Very Good, Jeeves (Wodehouse), 7

  Virginia, sterilization law, 14–15, 428–30

  Virginia State Colony for Epileptics and Feebleminded, 428, 429

  visitation rights, parental, 188–89

  Voltaire, 7

  voting rights, 131, 413–14, 433

  wage and hour laws, 222–23, 291–92, 357, 361–62, 412, 458, 459

  Wagner, Richard, 194, 424

  Ward, Thomas H., 162

  warranties, implied, 164

  Warren, Samuel, 179

  Warrenton (Va.), 102

  Washington, Booker T., 248

  Washington, D.C.

  in Civil War, 79–80, 102, 125, 259

  lackadaisical pace of tradesmen, 286

  local statutes, see under District of Columbia

  1918 flu pandemic, 377

  OWH’s homes in: 14 Lafayette Square, 265, 270, 281; 1720 Eye Street, 280, 286–87, 306–13, 307, 308, 311, 408

  parks and streets, 259–60

  political atmosphere, 278–79

  segregation, 261, 275, 413

  society and social rules, 273–79, 318–19

  Washington Monument, 307

  Washington Post, 274, 276

  Washington State, wiretapping law, 434

  water pollution and conservation, 198, 301, 447

  Webb, Beatrice, 373

  Webster, Daniel, 67, 424

  Weld, William, Jr., 180, 182

  Wells, H. G., 218

  Wendell, Jacob (great-grandfather of OWH), 51

  Weston, Dixon, 259

  Whig party, 67, 68

  White, E. B., 442

  White, Justice Edward Douglass, 269, 336

  and dissents, 344, 345

  friendship with OWH, 266, 270, 271, 275, 343

  on isolation of justices, 400–401

  named chief justice, 322–23, 335

  OWH’s appraisal of, 337, 343

  and OWH’s free speech dissent, 382

  on OWH’s lack of public reputation, 324

  and pipeline case, 340

  secretaries, 313

  slippery slope arguments, 342–43

  Whit
e, G. Edward, 496n32

  White House, 275, 277, 278, 279, 299, 301, 302, 309, 399, 424, 501n61

  white primaries, 433

  white supremacy, 68, 413–14

  Whitehead, Alfred North, 31, 332

  Whitman, Walt, 129

  Whittier, Charles, 108, 112–13

  Whitworth rifle, 479n55

  Wickersham, George W., 268

  Wigglesworth, Isabella, 210

  Wigglesworth, Mary Dixwell, 203

  Wigmore, John, 393, 426

  Wilde, Oscar, 9, 161, 218

  Wilderness, Battle of the, 71, 115–18, 133

  Wilderness Tavern, 115, 116

  will cases, 190–91, 192, 196

  Wilson, Woodrow

  appointments to the Court, 355, 359–60, 411

  election, 335, 353

  Laski’s fabricated tales of meeting, 373

  OWH unimpressed by, 399

  Wilton House, 219

  Windsor (Vt.), 248

  wiretapping, 433–35, 520n33

  Wisconsin, inheritance tax statute, 410

  Wister, Owen, 59, 183, 208, 217

  Wodehouse, P. G., 7, 443

  women’s suffrage, 131, 372

  “Wonderful One-Hoss-Shay, The” (Holmes Sr.), 42

  Wood, John F., 191–92

  Woolf, Leonard, 373–74

  Woolf, Virginia, 2, 7

  Woollcott, Alexander, 479–80n70

  Worcester (Mass.), 184, 194

  workers’ compensation, 397, 435

  workplace safety, 222, 291–92, 397

  World War I

  draft and recruiting, 368, 377–78

  Lewis Einstein’s prediction of, 280

  OWH’s feelings about, 123, 363–65, 385–86

  see also Espionage Act of 1917; free speech

  Wright, Chauncey, 149, 151

  Wright, Gen. Horatio C., 112, 121

  writ of certiorari, 402–3, 438

  writ of error, 349, 402

  Wu, John C. H.

  OWH’s remarks to: reality of war, 93; test of an idealist, 131; “imaginary society of jobbists,” 137; loneliness of original work, 152; “sticking to the rugged course,” 153; rights a matter of feet and inches, 297

  on OWH as skeptical skeptic, 151

  OWH subsidizes Harvard lectureship, 398

  urges OWH to write memoir, 455

  Wyanoke Neck (Va.), 116, 125

  Yankee from Olympus (Bowen), 501n58

  yellow-dog contracts, 302, 348, 458

  Yorktown (Va.), 91

  Zane, John M., 341, 436

  Zobel, Hiller B., 194, 487–88n19

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  Names: Budiansky, Stephen, author.

  Title: Oliver Wendell Holmes : a life in war, law, and ideas / Stephen Budiansky.

  Description: New York : W. W. Norton & Company, 2019. | Includes bibliographical references and index.

  Identifiers: LCCN 2018054671 | ISBN 9780393634723 (hardcover)

  Subjects: LCSH: Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr., 1841-1935 | Judges—United States—Biography. | United States. Supreme Court—Officials and employees—Biography.

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