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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...United States Supreme Court in the great case of Ex-Parto Milligan to make it, impossible for an earlier Governor of Rhode Island (General Burnside) to establish martial law, even during the Civil War, in a region (Indiana) which was not invaded by the enemy but completely free from disorder and in which the civil courts were quietly sitting...
...Godkin lectureship was endowed by friends of Edwin Godkin, founder and for many years editor of "The Nation" magazine, "as a memorial of his long and distinguished service to the country of his adoption." The lectures must be on "The essentials of free government and the duties of the citizen or upon some part of that subject." The endowment enables delivery and publication of these lectures each spring...
...drastic curtailments of liberty are warranted. The freedom of a few must sometimes be sacrificed in order to preserve freedom of all. Martial law is surely proper in a territory invaded by foreign troops, so that the ordinary courts can no longer sit and the army must be left free to take every available means to maintain the defense of the Nation...
...personal theories of one professor to influence those enrolled in a course. In order for there to be progress in art of any kind, men and women who are young enough to have grown up with existing social problems and whose judgment is unprejudiced must be given free reign to express their ideas...
...prophets want to get truth by the tail. A hybrid of poet and prophet is tomahawk-faced Robinson Jeffers, almost as much famed in the U. S. for doing his writing in a stone tower, built by himself, over-looking California's Carmel Bay, as for his violent free-verse narratives and black-diamond lyrics in Tamar, Roan Stallion, The Women at Point Sur, Cawdor, et al. Jeffers' latest book, Such Counsels You Gave to Me, is predominantly in his prophetic vein. Its title-poem is a fast-moving narrative of a student's sick return from...