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Among the outstanding American Hamlets there are pictures and playbills of the productions of Junius Brutus Booth and his more famous son, Edwin. A playbill, dated 1864, announces the appearance of the eminent tragedian John Wilkes Booth, brother of Edwin and assassin of Abraham Lincoln, in the role of Hamlet at the Boston Museum...
...Baltimore operatives reported a plot to assassinate Abraham Lincoln on the way to his inauguration. Sleuth Pinkerton rushed the President-elect to Washington by night, was rewarded by a White House invitation to create the U. S. Secret Service. After the Civil War, Pinkerton resumed his private work, grew rich and famed in the service of pioneering railroads beset by train robbers. But while boyish hearts thumped to the exploits of intrepid Pinkerton men in dime novels, Labor grew to hate the name more & more. For Pinkerton's was also making money by supplying armed guards to employers with...
...Democratic appointees ruled the Court and it was the turn of Whig-Republicans to chafe and roar. When Democratic Chief Justice Roger B. Taney, onetime slave owner, handed down his Dred Scott decision preserving Western territories to slavery despite the will of Congress, a rising Republican named Abraham Lincoln went up & down the land denouncing it, demanding that the President and Congress reverse it, calling for appointment of new, right-thinking Justices. As President, Lincoln carried his feud to the point of ordering an Army fort commander to ignore a writ of habeas corpus issued by Chief Justice Taney...
...Abraham Lincoln once remarked that he found it easier to run the Civil War than to satisfy his political followers' ravening for postmasterships. Last summer, in a move shrewdly timed to deflate Republican campaign attacks on Farleyism, Franklin Roosevelt put forward a solution to his great predecessor's problem. By Executive Order, in Congress' absence, he snatched 13.730 first, second and third class postmasterships out of the spoils trough, providing that they should hereafter be filled by: 1) postmasters already in office, after noncompetitive civil service examinations; 2) postal employes with civil service ratings, also after noncompetitive...
have a right to complain of the injustice of their Government." (1832) Abraham Lincoln: "If the policy of the Government, upon vital questions affecting the whole people, is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court, it is plain that the people will have ceased to be their own rulers." (1857) There is no attempt in Federal Justice, as there is in Lawyer Morris Ernst's new book on the Supreme Court (TIME, Jan. 18), to take from the judiciary the ultimate sanction in U. S. life...