Frankfurter Felix Justice Frankfurter to Women's Rights AssociationFelix Frankfurter, Typed Letter Signed, to Dorothy Wonderly Smith McAllister, November 14, 1949, Washington, D.C. 2 pp., 8" x 10.5". On Supreme Court of the United States letterhead. Expected folds; very good.Justice Frankfurter regretfully declines an invitation to address the fiftieth anniversary of the National Consumers' League. Reformer Florence E. Kelley (1859-1932) founded the National Consumers' League in 1898 to promote decent working conditions by encouraging the sale of items produced under regulatory guidelines. Approved goods carried white tags. Eventually, Congress adopted many of the league's legislative proposals, including minimum wage and the abolition of child labor.Excerpt:"The things that matter in this world are the things that are rooted in time, and my ties to the Consumers League are pretty close to forty years old. More than that, some of my most intimate friendships are related to it, and all the glow and stimulus that binds people together who have shared in what were after all not unimportant battles. Mostly I should like to come in order to let the present generation know something of the dedicated and courageous labors of John Graham Brooks and Mrs. Florence Kelley. I am not unmindful of so many other great soldiers in the common fight, but Mrs. Kelley stands forth as a shining, indomitable fighter who never wearied of well-doing when the going was toughest."Felix Frankfurter (1882-1965) was born into a Jewish family in Vienna, Austria, and immigrated to New York City in 1894. He graduated from the City College of New York in 1902 and from Harvard Law School. In 1906, he began working for Henry Stimson, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York. When President William Howard Taft appointed Stimson as Secretary of War in 1911, Stimson appointed Frankfurter as an assistant. From 1913 to 1917, he taught administrative law at Harvard Law School, but took a leave during World War I to serve as special assistant to the secretary of war and as Judge Advocate General. After the war with encouragement from Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis, Frankfurter became more involved in Zionist causes. In 1920, he helped to found the American Civil Liberties Union. In 1921, Frankfurter was given a chair at Harvard Law School. After Franklin D. Roosevelt's election in 1932, Frankfurter became an adviser to the president. In 1938, Roosevelt nominated Frankfurter to the U.S. Supreme Court. After a tempestuous nomination process, Frankfurter received confirmation and served on the court from January 1939 to August 1962. He wrote 247 opinions for the court, 132 concurring opinions, and 251 dissents. An advocate of judicial restraint, he had an argumentative style that was not popular among his Supreme Court colleagues.Dorothy Wonderly Smith McAllister (1899-1983) was born in Michigan and graduated from Bryn Mawr College in 1920. She married Thomas F. McAllister (1896-1976) in 1921, and they had two daughters. He served as a justice of the Michigan Supreme Court from 1938 to 1941 and as judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit from 1941 to his death. From 1937 to 1941, she served as the director of the Women's Division of the Democratic National Committee. She served as the chair of the National Committee to Defeat the UnEqual Rights Amendment, a group opposed to the Equal Rights Amendment. She also served as chair of the board of directors of the National Consumers' League.This item comes with a Certificate from John Reznikoff, a premier authenticator for both major 3rd party authentication services, PSA and JSA (James Spence Authentications), as well as numerous auction houses.WE PROVIDE IN-HOUSE SHIPPING WORLDWIDE.