Word: burrs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Aaron Burr (1801-05), who put the accent on the vice. Taking advantage of a gimmick (since corrected) in the Constitution, Burr, running for Vice President with Jefferson (who was running for President), was almost able to get the top job for himself. While he was Vice President, Burr killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel, was indicted for murder, skipped to Georgia, returned to preside over the impeachment trial of Justice Samuel Chase, made a moving farewell address to the Senate and slammed the door when he walked...
Charles P. Whitlock, Allston Burr Senior Tutor for Dudley, said yesterday that Bacigalupo was friendly, and was an above average student...
...School professors will lead a debate on the Supreme Court's segregation issue at tonight's open meeting of the Athenaeum in Burr Hall B at 8 p.m. Mark A. DeWolfe Howe, professor of Law, will debate the affirmative of "Resolved: That racial segregation in schools should be eliminated by exercise of the authority of the United States...
Pilot Leo Burr Clark, an Air Force lieutenant from Charleston, S.C., banked steeply to the left, thus saving many paratroopers ahead. As bodies banged against the plane-one smashed into a propeller, one was almost decapitated by the wing, one broke the glass of Clark's windshield with a great crash-he did not forget the jumpers hooked up to the static lines in the fuselage. He set off the emergency bell, warning them of imminent danger, both the pilot and the copilot, Lieut. Stanley Robert McCaig of Tieton, Wash., were still in their seats when the plane...
...President has ever been subpoenaed before. Two court subpoenas were issued to President Thomas Jefferson in 1807 by Chief Justice John Marshall in the treason proceedings against Aaron Burr. Jefferson refused on both the grounds that no court could force him to "abandon superior duties," and because of "the necessary right of the President to decide . . . what papers . . . the public interests permit to be communicated." At least 16 Presidents, among them Washington, Coolidge and Hoover, have declined to supply Congress with certain requested information...