May 27, 2008
The past might as well not have existed if the record of history does not recount it.
By that measure, Olive Henrietta Rabe is almost nonexistent. Her memory in American law is largely limited to a single line on a single page in United States Reports. There in volume 269 on page 644 one will find the following entry:
“Mrs. Olive H. Rabe, of Chicago, Ill., for respondent.”
Though much has been written about that statutory free-speech case — United States v. Schwimmer (1929) — and the men in it (especially Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.), few if any have ever paid attention to the lawyer who represented the respondent, Rosika Schwimmer, a woman...read more
By that measure, Olive Henrietta Rabe is almost nonexistent. Her memory in American law is largely limited to a single line on a single page in United States Reports. There in volume 269 on page 644 one will find the following entry:
“Mrs. Olive H. Rabe, of Chicago, Ill., for respondent.”
Though much has been written about that statutory free-speech case — United States v. Schwimmer (1929) — and the men in it (especially Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.), few if any have ever paid attention to the lawyer who represented the respondent, Rosika Schwimmer, a woman...read more
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