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Born in Muncie, Indiana, Cohen attended the University of Chicago before enrolling in the Harvard Law School, from which he was graduated at the age of twenty-two. Initially employed as a clerk for Circuit Court judge Julian Mack, then for Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, he later found employment as counsel for the shipping board combating waste and overcharges in the government's World War I contracts for oceangoing transport. Leaving governmental service at the end of the war, he appeared at the Versailles peace conference as a legal adviser to American Zionists pressing for a Jewish homeland in Palestine. Cohen was later to become involved in a lucrative business-law practice in New York, where he developed a reputation as a brilliant draftsman. His sense of public duty, however, motivated him to devote large portions of his time to the preparation of a minimum-wage law for the National...
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