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That the late Charles W. Eliot, president of Harvard University, favored the appointment of Louis D. Brandeis as his successor, and that it was Mr. Brandeis, then Supreme Court justice, who was largely responsible for the appointment of Herbert Hoover as food administrator during the World War are two of the hitherto unknown chapters in […]https://www.jta.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/jta-long-logo-bw.jpg600315