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...nomination. As an ardent advocate of the strongest possible federal open-housing plan, he promised that if Congress failed to pass a tough bill, he would see to it that an unequivocal open-housing code was adopted by the Maryland legislature. State Attorney General Thomas B. Finan, 52, a member of the scandal-tainted administration of outgoing Governor J. Millard Tawes, also supported open-housing legislation...
George Mahoney had 146,152 votes, Sickles 145,118 and Finan 133,149; a ragged field of five other candidates had 62,000 among them. If Mahoney wins, it would have to be called a startling upset, but it would by no means be the "backlash victory" that much of the daily press instantly called it. The fact was, Mahoney attracted a bare 31% of all votes cast; his two major opponents, both of whom came out strongly in favor of antidiscriminatory housing laws, pulled nearly twice that much...
...Catholic founders also guaranteed death for anyone "who shall deny the Holy Trinity." Vestiges of that 1649 paradox have hung on ever since, involving Maryland in more church-state lawsuits than any other state in the Union. Nothing, though, quite beats the current snarl that Attorney General Thomas B. Finan calls "the gravest crisis in the administration of criminal law in my experience...
...result, Maryland faced what Attorney General Thomas B. Finan called "the gravest crisis in the administration of criminal law in my experience." Although the decision is not retroactive, in Baltimore alone the wheels of justice were braked for at least 1,476 defendants. Every grand jury in the state faced dismissal; out went every indictment less than 30 days old (including the famous Baltimore assault charge against Atheist Madalyn Murray). Every trial juror now serving may go home, every defendant may get a new trial with new jurors, and every jury conviction open to appeal may be voided...
...never killed anyone in those days. I didn't want to be a dictator again because this time I might have to." Then Laurel and Tañada came back and asked him to lead a peaceful "crusade to free the country from the morally and finan cially bankrupt Quirino administration," and he agreed...