Word: chief
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Except for its decisions on school desegregation, the U.S. Supreme Court under Chief Justice Earl Warren has come under no heavier fire than for its rulings in the prickly area of internal security. Time and again, in apparently sweeping opinions, the court threw its weight on the side of individuals involved in security cases-to the point where many a sober-minded observer feared that the public interest was being jeopardized. But last week, in a pair of 5-4 decisions, the Supreme Court gave clearer focus to two of the most controversial of its earlier security-case rulings, brought...
From Nelson to Uphaus. In 1956, a 6-to-3 decision of the Supreme Court reversed the Pennsylvania conviction of Communist Leader Steve Nelson on state sedition charges. Said the majority opinion written by Chief Justice Warren: Federal regulations against subversive activity were so "pervasive" that "Congress left no room for the states to supplement [them]." By its language, the opinion seemed to be kicking the states completely out of the antisedition field...
...Government. Wrote Justice Clark: "All the [Nelson] opinion proscribed was a race between federal and state prosecutors to the courthouse door. The opinion made clear that a State could proceed with prosecutions for sedition against the State itself." In a dissent written by Justice William Brennan and joined by Chief Justice Warren and Justices Hugo Black and William Douglas, the court's staunchly civil righteous minority protested that the entire New Hampshire investigation of Uphaus was "exposure purely for the sake of exposure...
Hunting last summer for a ship to sink, Movie Producer Andrew (Cry Tenor) Stone was no more successful than the average iceberg. He combed the shipyards of Europe trying to find the chief prop for a new film called The Last Voyage, gave up in discouragement and sailed for home. At sea a day or so later, he looked over the water and saw a twin-stack, 44,000-ton liner slicing her way west at 23 knots. "That's the one," cried Stone. "I want...
Mercy & Damnation. In Calvin's theology, the prime attribute of God is transcendent sovereignty, and man's chief end is to know and glorify him. But by Adam's fall, man inherited utter depravity and corruptness-not only as a punishment, but also as a kind of disease, creating a condition for which eternal punishment is merited and just. "It is certain," wrote Calvin, "that in our body and soul there is in the eyes of God nothing but repulsive filth." But in his mercy, God has elected to save some by giving them the grace...