Word: fairing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Governors, Senators. Complicating the presidential vote in many a State, are gubernatorial and Congressional elections. Republican Indiana, for example, seemed last week in a fair way to acquire a Demo cratic Governor. So eaten with corruption is the local G. O. P. reputation that Demo crat Frank C. Dailey, running on a "house-cleaning'' platform, seemed well ahead of Republican Harry G. Leslie...
Professor Morgan says that the question is not whether Sacco and Vanzettl were innocent, but whether they had a fair trial. To be sure, that was the question before the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts for decision; but the question before the Governor was the broader one raising the issue of actual guilt. For the very purpose of the pardoning power vested in the governor is to enable him to extend executive clemency to innocent men and women who have been convicted after a fair trial. If the governor and his commission confined themselves to inquiring of the jurors whether...
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...really important question is not whether Vanzetti was innocent but whether Vanzetti had a fair trial. If he received a fair trial, neither he nor his friends have, or ever had, any real complaint against the courts of Massachusetts. Under our system a lawsuit is not an independent, scientific investigation for the discovery of truth, but is an adversary proceeding. The court has no facilities for making impartial investigations. The machinery for the administration of justice does not, and from its very nature cannot, function perfectly. In criminal cases the de- Instead of blasting off 30 feet of matrix from...
...Victor Symphony Orchestra has done a reasonably good job on the Norina Overture. A very fair record...