Word: earle
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Oath. Then Ike placed his left hand on the Bible his mother had given him when he graduated from West Point in 1915, opened at Psalms 33:12* raised his right hand and intoned after Chief Justice Earl Warren: "I, Dwight D. Eisenhower, do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States and will, to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States, so help...
...Thus Dwight David Eisenhower keyed both his second inaugural address and his second Administration this week as he spoke out from the Capitol steps to the tens of thousands before him and into the TV screens of millions. Moments before, President Eisenhower had raised his hand before Chief Justice Earl Warren to take his public oath of office beneath clear blue skies that had displaced an early grey overcast, his breath making tracks in the cold...
...William Earl Fikes is a 30-year-old Alabama Negro under sentence of death for burglary with intent to rape the daughter of Selma, Ala.'s mayor in 1953. When Alabama's highest court upheld the decision, his lawyers brought the case to the U.S. Supreme Court on the ground that Fikes had been denied due process before and during his trial. After his arrest, they argued, Fikes had first been lodged in a local jail, then whisked away to a state prison, where he was held incommunicado for more than a week-during which state officers obtained...
Over the justice of this estimate the Supreme Court clashed headlong last week. Wrote Chief Justice Earl Warren for the 6-3 majority which set aside the Alabama decision: "The circumstances of pressure applied against the power of resistance of this petitioner, who cannot be deemed other than weak of will or mind, deprived him of due process of law." From Justice John Marshall Harlan (joined by Stanley Reed and Harold Burton) came a vigorous dissent. The gist: not only was there no physical coercion but "psychological coercion is by no means manifest"; on the basis of the record...
After Polio, What? Hundreds of top-drawer medical scientists gathered in Manhattan last week for a conference arranged to celebrate the 65th birthday 9f Basil O'Connor, president of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. Chief Justice Earl Warren, on hand to pay tribute to his old friend and fellow lawyer, said that under O'Connor's leadership "the foundation has effectively conquered polio, and is within arm's length of its great goal-extinction of the disease...