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...high, coffered ceiling, and softly quoted the words that Jefferson wrote in the Kentucky Resolutions, which in a sentence sums up the theory that public officials are servants of the law: "In questions of power, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SUPREME COURT: An Extraordinary Case | 5/26/1952 | See Source »

...crucial question will not be their part in Thursday's proceedings, but simply whether the Administrative Board considers the Pogo rally a genuine riot or not. The logic of the University's Mere Presence rule is that no riot would occur unless the students were there to make mischief...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Riot Policy: II | 5/21/1952 | See Source »

...content to live on the heavy tribute he exacted from Maracaibo bordellos. Later, in a historic act of direct plunder, he loaded $3,000,000 in gold from the state treasury aboard a German airliner and took off for the Dutch island of Curagao. Juan Vicente clucked at such mischief, and on Santos' return made him president of the state of Carabobo. When Juan Vicente died in 1935, Santos flew off to Curacao again, this time with $45 million in boodle. Then he dropped from the public...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CARIBBEAN: Shrunken Santos | 10/15/1951 | See Source »

...writing a guest column for the New York Daily News: "All of us in Washington, surrounded by so many clever people, are consciously patriotic . . . If you go to those much maligned cocktail parties, a typical day might include four between 6 and 8 p.m. They are not exactly mischief and fun, but good conversation and partisan information on the topic of the day . . . the excellence of the Kress collection, or the intellectual brilliance of the Secretary of State. As you go from an important embassy to a well-known columnist's, to the Sulgrave Club and a chic Georgetown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Golden Hours | 8/6/1951 | See Source »

...matter had developed into an international incident; Pakistan was demanding an official apology. But New Rochelle's cops were standing pat. "I tried to explain," said Lieut. Lawrence Ruhl patiently, "that when gypsies turn up in the city, our men are on the alert for mischief...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNITED NATIONS: Alert in Westchester | 6/25/1951 | See Source »

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