Word: earls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Chief Justice Earl Warren concurred in the result of the majority opinion, but fretted lest Brennan's "broad language" might "eventually be applied to the arts and sciences and freedom of communication generally." Justice William Douglas (joined by Justice Hugo Black) dissented, arguing that the majority test of obscenity made for "community censorship in one of its worst forms. It creates a regime where, in the battle between the literati and the Philistines, the Philistines are certain to win." Wrote Douglas: "I have the same confidence in the ability of our people to reject noxious literature as I have...
Last week the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the Watkins conviction 6-1 (Whittaker not participating)-and an often emotional opinion by Chief Justice Earl Warren meandered over most of the constitutional landscape while throwing up fences against the power of congressional investigation...
...history's sharpest justifications of far-ranging congressional investigations were penned during the years when Congress was probing into governmental corruption and big business. The respective authors: Justices Felix Frankfurter and Hugo Black, who last week joined the Earl Warren majority in sharply condemning the broad range of questioning pursued by the House Committee on Un-American Activities...
...game with the Pittsburgh Pirates, Johnny Temple, Cincinnati Redleg second baseman, let a hot grounder sizzle through his legs, looked up to see the Scoreboard flash "error." and began a slow burn. After the Redlegs lost in the 11th, 3-2. Temple spotted the official scorer, Sportswriter Earl Lawson, in the clubhouse. "What was I supposed to do with that ball?" snapped Temple. "Shove it in my ear?" Said Lawson: "Grow up, John." Temple started swinging. The brief fracas cost Lawson one black eye. Temple a temper-cooling $100 fine...
...Lords ordainers all gave most adequate performances. Especially impressive were Thayer David as Thomas, Earl of Lancaster, and Robert Baines, as the treacherous Roger Mortimer...