Word: earls
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...charge Gurney with seven felonies, including one count each of conspiracy to defraud the U.S., bribery and accepting unlawful compensation, and four counts of perjury. His two aides and the two helpful HUD officials were also indicted, as were two former officers of Florida's Republican Party-Earl M. Crittenden, onetime state G.O.P. chairman, and George Anderson, former state party treasurer. If convicted, Gurney faces up to 42 years in prison and fines of at least...
...vote. If Earl Warren had to choose one memorial, it would undoubtedly be the decisions of his Supreme Court affirming that principle. There were others-school desegregation and the broadening of criminal suspects' rights, for instance-that also changed political and judicial history...
Warren always remembered what it was like to be in the little fellow's place. His father, an immigrant from Norway (the original family name was Varran), was a railroad worker in Los Angeles when Earl was born. The elder Warren joined the American Railway Union and was blacklisted in 1894 when he went on strike. He moved the family to Bakersfield, where he got a job and began working his way up the economic ladder to the comfortable perch of prosperous landlord. But young Earl had a keen understanding of the workingman's problems. As a teenage...
...Warren Court. The hopes raised by some of the decisions now may seem simplistic. Brown, for instance, was not the panacea for racial inequality that many may have envisioned. In their concern for citizens' rights however, the decisions were peculiarly American and epic. They survive, and so will Earl Warren's place in U.S. history. Early in the Republic, the court's great challenge was to ensure the strength and capacity of the Federal Government. Warren's opportunity, and mission, was to protect individual citizens from the enormously expanded power of Government. That was, as Warren...
...Died. Earl Warren, 83, Chief Justice of the United States from...