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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Justice Rutledge's vote usually went with the so-called liberal bloc-Justices William O. Douglas, Hugo Black and the late Frank Murphy. Often Rutledge and Murphy, in their passion for individual liberties, found themselves paired in lonely, bitter dissent...
...moved on to a tailor shop, opened the door, and murdered the tailor's screaming wife. He pushed into a neighboring house, found a fear-stricken woman and her 16-year-old son, shot both of them with his last bullets. Then he went back to his upstairs bedroom, leaving twelve dead, one dying and three wounded in a scant twelve minutes that had no counterpart in U.S. crime history...
...Then I discovered that my landing place [Orfordness, near Ipswich] was a desert. I stumbled into bogs, fell into brambles, sprained my ankle in a slough. 'Mon Dieu' I said to myself, 'have they ceased to be watchful along their coasts, these British?' Finally I found a house. The people took me to a post office. There was a pretty little clerk there and she made two telephone calls-one to the police and one to the Daily Express in London...
...force to win what its members wanted. Under a capitalistic sytem, one of unionism's functions was to limit the power of owners and managers. Had it a similar function in the socialist (or socialoid) society which unionism had created? T.U.C. delegates last week fumbled around for answers, found none...
...Angelo was plump, jovial, devoutly Catholic. By Italian standards, he was also prosperous. Thirty years ago he had gone to the New World to seek his fortune, and in Rhode Island he had found it, in a modest way, as a Providence shopkeeper. Last June, Angelo and his wife, Anna, went back to their beloved, native Naples for a two months' visit...