Word: judgments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...decision, Justice Willam 0. Douglas raised a conscience-pricking doubt about the legality of the Allies' punishment of Axis war criminals. When seven of the 25 Japanese warlords convicted in Tokyo appealed to the Supreme Court last year, the court decided it had no power to upset the judgment of the international tribunal which tried them. Now Douglas wanted to know: if the Supreme Court can't scrutinize the tribunals' judgments, who can? "If an American general holds a prisoner, our process can reach him wherever he is," he wrote. "To that extent, at least, the Constitution...
This week, Murphy, with his minutiae, Stryker, with his clients' stubborn avowal of innocence, faced the jury of two women, ten white-collar workers and businessmen. What Chambers had called a "tragedy of history" was near judgment and the bitter...
...Judgment. Seretse fought hard for throne and love. He had support from many who had grown tired of Regent Tshekedi's high-handed enlightenment (once the regent burned down the huts of tribesmen who defied tribal rulings). On the kgotla's sixth day young Seretse brought the issue to a head. He leaped up with a challenge: "All those stand up who will not accept my wife!" Only 40 rose. Seretse shouted: "Who wants me for chief with my white wife, whom I refuse to give up?" Nearly 6,000 tribesmen responded with a thunderous standing...
...this or that issue, their actions reveal that they have different and incompatible ends in view. Hence I think university presidents are justified in not hiring known Communists, and are justified in firing them in cases where a teacher has clearly sacrificed his freedom to use his own independent judgment. Use of this latter power, however, threatens a flood of abuses; it can only be held in check by an aroused and vigorous public opinion, among faculty and students and (so far as possible) among the public at large...
...almost three years Colombia's silver-haired Mariano Ospina Pérez has walked some of the steepest political cliffs in Latin America. Not once have his judgment, his courage and his silken poise failed him. A Conservative who reached the presidency because of a split in the Liberal Party, he has had to govern with a Liberal majority in the Congress and with a coalition cabinet. Ospina brushed off diehard Conservative pressure to crush the opposition by high-handed use of his powers. Last year, when enraged followers of assassinated Liberal Chieftain Jorge Eliécer Gaitan sacked...