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...battle. The analysis of Quinn's attempts to shut up the Race Track will be instructive to young lawyers how not to conduct a suit. Serious readers will be fascinated by the exhaustive, well-documented, and clear discussions of the legal posers involved in the Governor's proclamation of martial law and of the nature and power of the State Racing Commission, a model for all quasi-judicial executive bodies whose mush-room growth in the government worries many lawyers. "This bodes some strange cruption to our state," quotes Professor Chafee from Hamlet...
...days later the Sheik was accused of "possessing arms"-something every Arab sheik possesses-advised that if convicted under Britain's new emergency decree in Palestine the penalty would be Death. Arraigned before a court martial of three British officers, the Sheik Farhan refused to utter a word to the Court, kept repeating to himself passages from the Koran. His lawyer entered a plea of "not guilty," the court sentenced him to Death, and on the sixth morning after he crawled out of the wheat bin Sheik Farhan al Sadi was hanged by the neck until dead at Acre...
...were mussed up but these were conspicuous exceptions to local rule of labor against labor. By last week the daily din of brawling, shooting and window-smashing had reached such a pitch that the city revolted. Clamped down by Acting Mayor Robert Early Riley was a sort of mild martial law with a stiff midnight curfew and the entire police force on twelve hour shifts. Emergency authority was granted to hire more officers, buy additional arms and equipment and padlock the haunts of thugs and "goon squads...
...shortly produced further revolutionary rumblings. These Strong Man Vargas has dealt with chiefly by governing vast Brazil from his white Guanabara Palace under a succession of "State of War" decrees which have kept his 45,000,000 fellow citizens, who live in half of South America, virtually under martial...
However, the previous careers of these two men and the question whether either or both of them was at Harvard can have nothing to with my opinions about the legal merits of the Governor's proclamation of martial law and about the unfairness of his midnight arrest of Mr. O'Hara in a private libel action for damages of astronomical proportions...