Word: persons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb...
Labor was in a swivet over Old Fair Dealer DiSalle's hard-hitting state labor-racketeering bill. The measure, now before the Democratic legislature, provides fines and imprisonment for labor leaders who 1) charter paper locals, 2) use union funds for personal profit, 3) buy stock in corporations with which they bargain collectively-or have bargained with over a three-year period, 4) accept gifts from companies with which they have bargained. Under the same bargaining terms, it also sets up a maximum of a $1,000 fine and a year's imprisonment for any union member...
...television, the cops grudgingly allow the private eyes to solve their cases for them. But, like Tom himself, Police Chief Nardone did not quite meet TV specifications. Before he knew what had happened, Tommaso Ponzi, private eye, found himself charged with impersonating an officer, violation of domicile, restraint of person and arbitrary arrest. Tom's suspects, who had admitted to being part of an estimated $500,000-a-year ring, walked out of the station free men-because the police themselves had not caught them red-handed as the law requires...
Undoubtedly a major feature of the current quest for culture is a desire, heavy with overtones of both social snobbery and cultural inferiority, to "understand" what art is all about. Courses telling a person how to look at a piece of art or records explaining what it is that the hearer is hearing continue to attract large audiences and fat profits. "I want to learn to appreciate art," is a common pronouncement of anxious masses fearful whether they are not "complete" persons until they do. It is such a context that gives so great importance to the methods and approach...
Hotspur lies dead, however, at the end of the play, and the coming repudiation of Falstaff is announced near the beginning. Shakespeare's theme, one of his favorites, is the defeat of high disorder and glorious idiosyncrasy by a comparatively hum-drum and rather chilly practicality, in the person of Henry, Prince of Wales. In Part II of Henry IV Shakespeare shows us that Hotspur's colleagues are merely anarchic self-seekers and that Falstaff and his friends have a sizeable streak of moral rottenness; in Henry V the now-eponymous hero reconciles (with some disturbing overtones) personal grandeur with...