Word: courting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...JUSTICE, WAS AN ENNOBLING INSPIRATION TO ALL FREE NATIONS OF THE WORLD. IN MARKED CONTRAST WAS THE TRIAL OF JOSEF CARDINAL MINDSZENTY IN BUDAPEST. IT TOOK THE KREMLIN THREE DAYS TO IMPOSE GUILT ON THIS INNOCENT MAN, AS AGAINST THE 169 DAYS ALLOWED IN JUDGE MEDINA'S COURT TO OVERTHROW THE LEGAL PRESUMPTION OF INNOCENCE AND IMPOSE GUILT ON GUILTY MEN. JUDGE MEDINA'S . . . COURT GENERALSHIP ... RECALLS TO MIND JUSTICE CARDOZO'S WORDS: "THE PROPHET AND THE MARTYR DO NOT SEE THE HOOTING THRONG. THEIR EYES ARE FIXED ON THE ETERNITIES." ALL AMERICA SHOULD HONOR JUDGE MEDINA...
Best Friend. In Detroit, Glen Stewart asked the court to be lenient with the dog that bit him: "I suffered no ill effects but the dog got sick...
...court-martial reduced the charge against 25-year-old Sailor Williams from desertion to unauthorized absence, on the testimony of Navy doctors that he suffered from "psychiatric amnesia." Then they sentenced him to three years in prison, remitted the sentence, gave him a bad-conduct discharge, and packed him off to San Francisco's Treasure Island to await final action. There last week he learned that Secretary of the Navy Francis Matthews had set aside the court's sentence. The Navy ushered Williams back into civilian life...
Last week the three judges of the U.S. tenth circuit court of appeals at Omaha unanimously turned down Dr. Warren's appeal, ruled that if the U.S. Congress has the power to raise armies-which it does-it also has "power to say who shall serve in them and in what way . . . The constitutional guaranties of personal liberty are not always absolutes . . . [Dr. Warren violated the law] under his asserted philosophy that he had a right to disobey a Federal law which he believed to be detrimental to mankind. A person may not decide to himself whether...
...smiling and cocky. Federal Judge Harold R. Medina had denied the Commies bail, but the court of appeals had released them (their bail: $260,000). In the glare of flaming red torches, Ben Davis crowed to a crowd on Harlem's Lenox Avenue near 111th Street. "I am out on bail because you brought me out of jail," he boomed. "I am back just in time to get re-elected . . . and no S.O.B. Medina is going to stop me." Newly freed Comrades Robert Thompson and Henry Winston, who came along for the ride, tossed a little more verbal kerosene...