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...nothing much was done about it. At least not until the members of the Warren Commission became outraged by the prejudicial newspaper coverage, on a nation-wide scale, of Lee Harvey Oswald, accused as the assassin of President Kennedy. By December of 1964, the American Bar Association (ABA) had organized a special committee to do something about...

Author: By Jeffrey C. Alexander, | Title: Harvardmen Head Historic Bar Study of Effect of Press on Fair Trials | 10/20/1966 | See Source »

...previously urged tax increases to battle inflation, told a meeting of the American Bankers Association that he could well under stand why the President had held off on a tax hike until "he knows where we are going in Viet Nam." In a fascinating sideshow to the ABA sessions in Spain, Martin's Federal Reserve colleague, Board Member J. Dewey Daane, appeared in a Toledo ring and made four respectable passes with a scarlet and yellow cape at a "bull." Actually, the beast was a heifer, but the bankers wildly cheered the performance-not least because...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Economy: How the Glow Goes | 6/3/1966 | See Source »

...ABA Commission on Electoral College Reform, of which Freund was a member, recommended Sunday that the president and vice-president, running as a team, be elected by national popular vote with a minimum of 40 per cent required for election. If no candidate received 40 per cent, a national runoff election would be held...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freund Says Direct National Vote Would Stimulate Political Activity | 1/10/1966 | See Source »

...proposal receives the expected approval from the full ABA House of Delegates at its February meeting, the ABA may institute local and national groups to press for its adoption as a constitutional amendment...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freund Says Direct National Vote Would Stimulate Political Activity | 1/10/1966 | See Source »

...Commedia is composed of three colossal canticles: I'lnferno, il Purgatorio, il Paradiso. Each canticle, if the first canto of I'lnferno is counted as a prologue, contains 33 cantos, and each canto contains about 142 lines composed in terza rima, a rhyme scheme (aba, bcb, cdc, ded, and so on) so cruelly intricate that only Dante ever mastered its hazards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Man for the Ages | 7/9/1965 | See Source »

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