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Debate on the proposal took only a few minutes. After suspending the rules to place the Traffic Board recommendation first on the docket, Mayor Edward J. Crane '35 and the other members of the Council heard brief remarks by Whitlock and Chief of Police Andrew Brennan...
...widespread belief-may have both items paid for by a fund set up for the purpose. Each case is pondered by at least three of the eighteen auditors (called "black cardinals" for their black, ermine-lined formal vestments), whose dean is white-haired, Pennsylvania-born Msgr. Francis J. Brennan, 65, a veteran of 20 years' service on the Rota...
...satire, and with it the heel-kicking, finger-feathering gestures of Little Mary (Eileen Brennan), tires out before Yellow Feather, the Indian heavy, finally has the heroine strapped to a conifer and the No. i Ranger comes singing to the rescue. Nonetheless, there are plenty of fine moments along the way: an ex-diva of Germanic origin sings of her native burg (In Izzenschnooken on the Lovely Essen-zook Zee). A soubrette who wishes she were an unvirtued spy sings her unashamed worship of Mata Hari...
Last week the U.S. Supreme Court upheld Abel's conviction, but in a sharply split (5-4) decision. The four dissenting justices (William Brennan, Hugo Black, William Douglas, Chief Justice Earl Warren) agreed with Abel's court-appointed lawyer that the FBI had no right to use for criminal prosecution the evidence that was seized in the course of Immigration's "administrative" arrest (one not ordered by a court warrant). In his dissent. Justice Brennan charged violation of the spy's Fourth Amendment protections from "unreasonable searches and seizures." But the court majority reviewed each step...
With the case before them on direct appeal by Thompson's attorney, the Justices explored shuffling at length. ("What is a shuffle dance?" asked Justice William Brennan. Replied Louisville's uncomfortable assistant city attorney: "I presume it is some sort of dancing that uses a system of shuffling.") They concluded that no evidence of loitering or disorderly conduct existed. Wrote Justice Hugo L. Black for the court: "Although the fines are small, the due-process questions presented are substantial...