Charles E. Wyzanski Jr.

One of the greatest judges ever to sit on Ihe federal bench, Learned Hand was passed over by seven Presidents in their appointments to the Supreme Court of the United Stales. JUDGE CHARLES E. WYZANSKI, JR., who was appointed to Ihe United States District Court of Massachusetts in 1941, recounts the career of this extraordinary jurist whom he once served as secretary.

A graduate of Harvard and the Harvard Law School who served as secretary to both Judge Augustus Hand and Judge Learned Hand, and from 1935 to 1937 as special assistant to the Attorney General of the United States, JUDGE CHARLES E. WYZANSKI, JR., was appointed to the U.S. District Court of Massachusetts in December, 1951.

CHARLES L. WYZANSKI, JR., who was appointed to the U.S. District Court of Massachusetts in 1941, is imbued with a strong sense of the continuity of the law. Following his graduation from the Harvard Law School, he served as secretary to Judge Augustus N. Hand and Judge Learned Hand. He became an ardent, though not always uncritical, admirer of Justice Brandeis. On this the 100th Anniversary of Brandeis’s birth, it is appropriate to be reminded that in his influence upon American law Justice Brandeis comes second only to John Marshall.

A graduate of Harvard and the Harvard Law School who served as secretary to both Judge Augustus N. Hand and Judge Learned Hand, and from 1937 as special assistant to the Attorney General of the United States, JUDGE CHARLES E. WYZANSKI, JR., was appointed to the U.S. District Court of Massachusetts in December, 1941. Speaking before a group of some two hundred editorial writers at the conclusion of their three-day conference in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Judge Wyzanski defined the meaning of morale in these invigorating words.

The freedom to travel which was sharply curtailed by the two World Wars has been even more rigorously limited for Americans by the McCarran Act of 1950. We turned to JUDGE CHARLES E. WYZANSKI, JR., for a firm reminder of how this freedom, comparable to freedom of speech, has been respected by other men in other, more broad-minded epochs. A graduate of Harvard and the Harvard Law School who served as secretary to both Judge Augustus N. Hand and Judge Learned Hand, and from 1937 as special assistant to the Attorney General of the United States, Judge Wyzanski was appointed to the U.S. District Court of Massachusetts in December, 1941.

Ever since the Russian Revolution, there have been sporadic legal efforts to checkmate the spread of Communism in America. In this paper JUDGE CHARLES F. WYZANSKI, JR., examines the legal positions from which the Government proceeded against the Communists in the recent trials under Judge Hand and Judge Medina. A graduate of Harvard and the Harvard Law School who served as secretary to Judge Augustus Hand,and from 1935 to 1937 as special assistant to the Attorney General of the United States,Judge Wyzanski was appointed to the U.S. District Court of Massachusetts in December, 1941.