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commercial compani e7always considered the ee evement of hia life. . Always the champion af the small merchant against “big bustl- . Brandeis in 1913 wrote his pook, “Other People's Morley,” an arraignment of the current fi- nancial practices which later came be regarded almost as 4 ‘prophecy of the giddy speculative spiral which suddenly crashed in} the debacle of 1929. Ideas which Brandeis expressed | this book held the germ of much of the New Deal legisiation in the field of securities reform which Was later written upon the statute Nomination of Brandeis to the supreme bench by Woodrow , Wil- son in 1916 threw a bombshell into conservative legal and business circles. He was looked on as a “Bocialist,” 2 wild-eyed radical and ry portertt of the revolution by the isubmerjed and inarticulate mil- Hons of whom the “economic royal- ipts’’ of that day lived in dread. Once on the lofty pinnacle e high court, however, Brande! juickly formed a profound friem{- ship with the patrician Holm¢ scion of entrenched “Back Bay” familles. The two great liberal jurists lived to see the principles of jurisprudence laid down in their famous dissents become the erated Supreme Court. Far From a “Yes Man” Often called the “first New Dealer,” Brandeis nevertheless was far from being a mere “yes man” on the high court after President Roosevelt took office in 1933. He concurred in the unanimous outlawing of NRA by the Supreme Court in the first year of the| New Deal—the decision which | pre- vokrd the President's bitter ‘‘porse anc buggy” rejoinder--and ex-| pressed himself strongly in en! vate against the proposal to en- large the Supreme Court in 1937, | dominating influence of « : { Court in 1039 to der of his Hfe to study plation. During. his on the bench be was knoy for “his impeccable courtesy lawyers arguing cases before th nine justices, and unfil en be was loved by the small ote ana: friends who had entr to his apartment here. ; ‘counery sew, srer to serve oo 8 | lively interest d life fm the Zionist movern for jkome years headed the or ization in the United Sta aisd pursued Many perso: ltentatious philanthrephies: s gave away much of his persot jfortune to charitable causes. ‘nai B‘rith Head | Praises Brandeis’ — Henry Monaky, president B'nai B'rith, issued the follow statement last night in the na of the organization he “heads: : “One of the great Americ: af Bie tien Tiarste Fhermmhite Diy ES VT, A be oe ‘dela did much by his infellect integrity and the enduring qua of his Judictat opini to & the torch of American ahin brightly. Serving both justice : the renaissance of the Jev Leet ee with devotion and faith pene, Justice Brandeis was ont great moral forcea of ‘ aay, Better than anyone h¢ 4 med up his’ own career when ‘an his philosophy was a ithinking and simple living.’