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Source: Forward

5-9-16

No Bidders for President’s ‘Anti-Semitic’ Letter Opposing Louis Brandeis Court Nod

A letter from former President William Howard Taft attacking the nomination of Louis D. Brandeis to the U.S. Supreme Court in thinly veiled anti-Semitic terms may be of historic value, but apparently not $15,000 worth.

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No Bidders for President’s ‘Anti-Semitic’ Letter Opposing Louis Brandeis Court Nod