Word: earls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...worked on the Law Day speech he would deliver to a nationwide television audience. And the Chief Justice and Attorney General of the U.S. made ready to travel to Philadelphia and Independence Hall. There, in liberty's shrine on the eve of Law Day, Chief Justice Earl Warren and Attorney General William Rogers would join in nationally televised cere monies with the man who conceived the idea of Law Day: Charles Sylvanus Rhyne, president of the American Bar Association, prime mover in the campaign to get the U.S. this week to reaffirm its faith in the forces...
...determine the wisdom of legislation. The awesome power of this court to invalidate such legislation, because in practice it is bounded only by our own prudence in discerning the limits of the court's constitutional function, must be exercised with the utmost restraint." He took special exception to Earl Warren's citing of the 81 times the Supreme Court has declared acts of Congress unconstitutional. That, said Felix Frankfurter, ad-libbing in his opinion, was not much to boast about-especially since a good many of those decisions had later been reversed by the court itself...
...majority opinion, written by Justice John Marshall Harlan, cited the overwhelming precedent upholding criminal-contempt convictions without juries. Justice William J. Brennan reserved his opinion on the constitutional points involved, dissented on the ground of insufficient evidence. But Hugo Black wrote a dissenting opinion for himself, Chief Justice Earl Warren and William Douglas, which struck at the foundations of the judiciary's enforcement powers. Wrote Black: "The power of a judge to inflict punishment for criminal contempt by means of a summary proceeding stands as an anomaly in the law . . . No official, regardless of his position or the purity...
...Inside Africa he predicted confidently that independence would not come soon to Morocco; less than a year after Inside Africa appeared on the bookstalls, Morocco was independent. The last 1951 edition of Inside U.S.A. perpetuates Stevenson Democrat Gunther's three-year-old thumbs-down verdict on Earl Warren (whom he had not met): "He will never set the world on fire or even make it smoke." In all his 35 years as a foreign-news specialist, Gunther has never learned a foreign language. His critics also take him to task for deliberately passing up fundamentals for froth. Inside Africa...
FLASHY CARS are on the way out, says G.M. Styling Veep Harley Earl. G.M. surveys found that 50% of motorists want less chrome (v. only 15% in past), "so now we are deleting chrome as fast as we can." Almost all future cars being shown by G.M. are in one color...