Word: burrs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...solution to the problem of loyalty and security has turned of late to Chief Justice John Marshall, whose interpretation of privileges protected by the Fifth Amendment may help us to know what to do about uncooperative witnesses. Under Marshall's interpretation in the trial of Aaron Burr, it is clear that a witness may refuse to disclose any information which might aid in convicting him of crime, but that the Government has a right to demand from its citizens all other pertinent information in a legitimate inquiry. Embarrassment, or even disgrace, therefore, will not excuse a witness from responding...
...Fordham Law Review and now being distributed by the Fund for the Republic. Williams, onetime law clerk to Chief Justice William H. Taft, and general counsel for the Commerce Department in the Truman Administration, starts with John Marshall's 1807 ruling in the treason trial of Aaron Burr. Called as a witness was Burr's secretary, a Mr. Willie, who was asked if he had understood a cipher message purportedly written by Burr. Willie refused to answer the question, citing the Fifth Amendment and insisting that an answer would tend to incriminate him. After two days of argument...
...Burr case, the Government attorneys argued that the Fifth Amendment could be properly invoked only when the answer to a question would, by itself, be enough to convict the witness of a crime. Said Marshall...
...Society of Tammany was first used as a power instrument by a politician whose contact with the Evil Spirit was more caress than competition: Aaron Burr. In Tammany, which drew its membership from working men and enlisted veterans of the army of the Revolution, Burr saw the perfect political counterfoil to Alexander Hamilton's Society of the Cincinnati, a veterans' organization made up of officers. When Burr and Hamilton dueled at Weehawken, two Tammany sachems were with Burr, one as his second. That night, as Hamilton lay dying, there was a gala celebration at Tammany headquarters...
After a Christmasy opening, filled with carolers and cuteness, Disney's anthropomorphic animals take charge: Jock the Scotty speaks with a burr; Trusty the bloodhound has a Southern accent; a dachshund talks like a comedy Dutchman; a borzoi spouts about Gorky with Russian flourishes. Whimsy is seldom more than a step ahead of whamsy: Jock and Trusty archly explain about sex to Lady just before Tramp does battle with three slavering mastiffs; a comic scene in the dog pound is closely followed by a parody of the "last mile" walk from the death house as a crazed...