Word: court
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...deprived of all personal freedom and all rights as the archbishop," wrote Beran, "and all this without any investigation and without any decision of any court...Are all these actions legal...
Archduke Franz Joseph of Habsburg asked a New York court to settle a royal family row. He wanted exactly $949,999 from his brother and sister-in-law, Archduke Anton and Archduchess Ileana. That, he said, was his rightful share of what they had received for an ancestral castle, objets d'art and the family silverware in Austria. Although Anton and Ileana were safely in Buenos Aires, he won an attachment against $100,000 that they had salted away in the Chase National Bank...
...decision last year, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Champaign, Ill. school board had violated the Constitution when it permitted religious instruction during school hours and on school property (TIME, March 22, 1948). Champaign thereupon closed down its formal religious program; churchmen and educators waited to see how other communities would react. Last week, a survey by the National Education Association gave the first comprehensive check...
Replies from 2,639 public-school systems throughout the country showed that 1,931 (73.2%) had no religious instruction program. Of these, a sixth had recently abandoned such programs. Commonest reason: last year's Supreme Court decision. Nonetheless, more schools (about 13%) had religious education than...
...young (27) editor of the Memphis Press, Leech wrote a fiery editorial ("The Shame of It All") blasting Boss Crump's political machine, and accusing local judges of whitewashing Crump election frauds. Sentenced to ten days for contempt of court, Leech was escorted to jail by a brass band. Half an hour later, he was pounding out a story on a typewriter in his cell-first of a ten-day series called "Jailed." Admirers sent Leech a well-stocked refrigerator, fresh linen, flowers and cigars, and a faithful reader brought her daughter to recite the Declaration of Independence...