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...killing, Mrs. Anna Sage, "The Woman in Ked, has denied she tipped off Federal agents. Faced with deportation to Rumania, she marched into a Chicago court, changed her story, insisted she betrayed Dillinger. In return, said Tipstress Sage Melvin Purvis, then chief Chicago investigator of the Department of Justic promised to sidetrack deportation proceedings against her. While Director J. Edgar Hoover of the Division of Invest gation denied any such deal, the Chicago judge granted a temporary writ to prevent her deportation...
...purpose to nourish its members on long lists of past cases and decisions. Neither is its purpose to hand down decisions on future disputes, as the ancient University of Paris did in weighty ecclesiastical affairs. The academy at the Hague intends solely to explore the bases of international justic and the rules for its beneficent administration. Not only will it further international understanding and furnish a preparatory school for membership in the Permanent Hague Court, but it will also blaze the trail for more such schools in other fields of study...
...Fairbanks, you are right. Far-distance glasses. He has failed to perceive that justice is elemental in the state and that when, after a succession of the basest deeds has been perpetrated against society in general (not to men certain material causes which would tend to incite retaliation by whites upon the blacks), the fundamental concept of emotional justice, whether it is justified or not, is bound to force action. I dare say that were a succession of 28 assaults and outrages by negroes upon white women to occur in any city in the country, eastern cities included, there would...
...fundamental principles of government, said Mr. Garfield, must be learned not alone from text-books, but from experience and contact with men. Our state constitutions adopted ten, fifty, or a hundred years ago can not be applied to modern conditions without change. Chief Justic Marshall saw that the Federal Constitution must grow and by his wise decisions did not hamper Congress in its extension of the powers granted in the commerce clause of the Constitution. Those states are advancing ahead of their neighbors whose courts have similarly been most liberal in the construction of their several constitutions. To fulfill their...