Word: duress
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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They recalled that Senor Carlos Solorzano was elected President of Nicaragua for the term 1925-29. He resigned under duress last January after General Chamorro seized power. The Vice President elected with Senor Solorzano, Senor Sacasa, was able to escape and has not resigned. Nicaraguan Liberals consider that Senor Sacasa, not Senor Diaz, should be recognized as President...
Consuelo Vanderbilt, daughter of the late William K. Vanderbilt and the present Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont, is alleged to have appeared before the Catholic Diocesan Court at Southwark, Eng., with her mother last July, and deposed that she was forced by parental duress to consent to marry in 1895 Charles Richard John Spencer-Churchill, Ninth Duke of Marlborough, Baron Spencer, Baron Churchill, Earl of Sunderland, Earl of Marlborough, Marquis of Blandford, Prince of the Holy Roman Empire, Prince of Mindelheim in Suabia, Knight of the Garter, descendant of "England's greatest general" John Churchill, First Duke of Marlborough...
Nothing has been more perplexing to lawyers, trial judges and appellate courts than the "sage inconsistencies of the rules of, evidence." It is familiar law that confessions given under duress are not admissible. A confession must be voluntary, without fear of punishment or hope of reward. The problem is to fit particular cases to these general principles. The decision in this case should be a valuable guide in this difficult matter. The appeal was argued before the Supreme Court by James B. Shea on a brief signed by John W. Davis when he was a member of Stetson, Jennings, Russell...
...recognized. First, there is the apathetic student who carves monograms in Sever while the lecturer's torrent of words slides off him. A "mute, inglorious Milton", taking his first steps! Likewise, what of the note-book sketcher? Another Whistler in the cotyledonous stage, learning his art under scholastic duress! As for the Darwins those fraternities and organizations that demand initiatory cats doubtless have their place in the education of great men. Or such, at least, are the comforting inferences to be drawn from the work of some modern historians...
France. It can be fairly asserted, that the actuating motive which drove the French into the Ruhr was fear that the Germans would be able to turn their military defeat into an economic victory. Everything pointed to this end. Germany agreed (under duress) to pay reparations. She paid a fractional part of the sum demanded. Her industries were intact; those of France had been destroyed. The industrial revival in Germany kept pace with the fall of the mark, until the Ruhr occupation put an end to it. The manufactured goods of a mark-infested Germany were poured en masse into...