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TIL about James Clark McReynolds, who served as a Supreme Court justice from 1914 until 1941. He would not accept "Jews, drinkers, blacks, women, smokers, married or engaged individuals" as law clerks, did not speak to Justice Louis Brandeis for three years, and was nicknamed "Scrooge."

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