Word: law
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...they are. Last week the delicate balance, a matter of timing and tradition, was snapped. A reporter casually asked the city's new welfare director, John J. O' Toole, whether Negroes could be allowed to swim in all the city's public pools. There was no law saying they couldn't, so O' Toole answered: "If the colored people apply for admittance, my order is to admit them. I am not going to be a party to an unlawful gentleman's agreement...
...reverence last week. "Call Mr. Justice Felix Frankfurter," he said. Dressed in an ordinary brown suit but robed in his uncommon prestige, little Justice Frankfurter stepped to the stand. He had come from the Supreme Court to Manhattan to be a character witness for Alger Hiss, his onetime Harvard law student, on trial in Federal Court for perjury. The Government had rested and Alger Hiss had begun his defense...
...Hiss had been a member of the Harvard Law Review, Justice Frankfurter told Lawyer Stryker. Yes, members of the Review were certainly young men of "intelligence, character and ability." In 1929, Harvard Professor Frankfurter had picked Hiss to serve as law clerk for the late great Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes...
...Harvard Law School's Thomas Reed Powell, 69, testy expert on the U.S. Constitution. A stout man with a bristling mustache, Vermonter Powell was a pitiless and unpredictable examination marker. Known among legal scholars as the "dean of constitutional law," he was once asked whether he would take a Massachusetts teachers' oath to support the Constitution. "Certainly," replied Powell. "It has been supporting me for the last 25 years...
...Sweden, as in all Scandinavian countries, religious liberty has developed only gradually since Lutheranism became supreme in the 16th Century; until a law was passed in 1860 recognizing dissident churches, any attempt to get a Lutheran to change his confession was a penal offense, and apostasy from the state church made a Swede liable to banishment for life. Since 1860 much progress has been made, but it has been slow...