Word: commonnesses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York, whose Congressional district includes Hyde Park, introduced a resolution that made interesting reading for his most famed constituent "that it is the sense of the House of Representatives that the precedent established by Washington and other Presidents . . . in retiring . . . after their second term . . . has become by common concurrence a part of our republican system of Government and that any departures . . . would be unwise, unpatriotic and fraught with peril...
...Frenzied Passion." Four steel strikers were convicted for their part in the Republic Steel Corp. bombing in Warren, Ohio six weeks ago. In sentencing them Warren's Common Pleas Court Judge Lynn B. Griffith rebuked them as much in the name of Labor as in the name of Law: "In your frenzied passion you have violated the law, insulted the dignity and decency of the State of Ohio, endangered the lives and property, and overwhelmed this peaceable and quiet community by your indefensive course of conduct. . . . No labor union in our land approves or condones the erratic course...
...other hand, if Dr. Corbit waited for Mary Bocassini to die, the only way to deliver the baby would still be by Cesarean section. This introduced a problem in Common Law. Cutting her body post mortem might be construed as an autopsy. And Common Law forbids autopsy without the consent of the nearest surviving kin. Her husband objected...
...hospital superior asked advice of a Philadelphia lawyer, Assistant City Solicitor G. Coe Farrier, who has six children, one of whom he delivered himself because no doctor was handy. Lawyer Farrier believed that the husband's consent to autopsy was not essential in this emergency. A common pleas judge, Harry E. Kalodner, onetime reporter for the Philadelphia Record, concurred. Judge Kalodner called in the press to hear the following opinion...
...replaced by Jameson, an army officer who tries to substitute psychology for solitary confinement. His first test comes when a religious maniac gets hold of a guard's rifle and threatens a mass massacre of his fellow convicts because they had refused spiritual redemption. With the amazing coolness common to motion picture actors in such crises, Jameson strolls up and takes the gun away from him. The next impasse is a sit-down strike staged at exercise time in the yard by convicts objecting to favoritism in the arrangement of prison jobs. That causes unfavorable publicity and Jameson...