Word: felix
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...government oppression. In essence, the Bill of Rights commands government to prove its case against the accused beyond reasonable doubt. The state cannot force a defendant to testify against himself; the courts must exclude "confessions" that have been obtained by coercion, even if it means freeing the guilty. As Felix Frankfurter summarized the significance of such provisions: "The history of liberty has largely been the history of the observance of procedural safeguards...
...came to Boston and how true the old adage is , in fact, that hitting seems irrelevant to a team's consider, for example the the 1965 Boston Red Sox. Carl Yastrzemski leads in hitting with a .340 . All-star second baseman Felix Mantilla is batting 227. Three other Sox regulars are hitting 23 or better. Twenty-year old out-fielder Tony Conigliaro has bit 16 home runs third best in the league; Yastrzemski, Mantilla and Lee Thomas all have hit more than...
...clubs are at Hyannisport, Wianno and Oyster Harbors. Not only do they hold their status because of the social standing of members, but also because they command most of the best facilities?golf courses, tennis courts, docks, private beaches and clubhouses. (Oyster Harbors' members include Paul Mellon and A. Felix du Pont Jr.) This actually causes little concern to the theatrical people and artists who summer at the unsocial lower Cape towns of Wellfleet, Truro and Provincetown, or to affluent visitors who summer at fashionable Chatham, which has one of the best harbors for small-boat sailing...
...Alger Hiss went on trial in New York as a result of evidence gathered in an investigation by the House Committee on Un-American Activities. Hiss had graduated from Harvard Law School in the thirties, and while in Cambridge had been on the Law Review and a protege of Felix Frankfurter. When he went to Washington as a federal administrator, Hiss, like countless servants of the New Deal, symbolized Harvard to the nation. And, when he was convicted of perjury, the real charge in the public mind was espionage, and the University was viewed with suspicion as the "Kremlin...
...Justice Felix Frankfurter warned his Supreme Court colleagues against meddling with the apportion ment of political voting districts...