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...even singed the man who threw the match. To the chairman of a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee came a letter urging the Senate to restore $8,205,000 (to replace overage Coast Guard aircraft) that the House of Representatives had whittled from the Treasury Department's budget. The pleader: Treasury Secretary Humphrey himself...
Chafee himself considered his major work the drafting of the Federal Inter-pleader Act of 1934. Although his interest in civil rights developed as a by-product of his more technical legal work, it was in the defense of free expression that Chafee achieved national prominence...
...there and attended the town's university. At Brown, which the left in 1907 carring a Phi Betta Kappa Key, a summa citation, and an A.B., Chafee's chief interests were writing and Latin translation. In fact, he considers his two greatest achievements to be drafting the Federal Inter-pleader Act of 1934 and translating the anonymous Latin Poem Pervigilium Veneris while at Brown. After a few years of working for his father's manufacturing firm, reading Blackstone, and being bored, Chafee decided to go to Harvard Law School. He had always wanted to write and his work...
Last month the Fund was attacked again for hiring Fifth Amendment-Pleader Amos Landman as a part-time pressagent; it replied that Landman had been hired because he was competent. Subsequently, plans to spend $200,000 to put the Washington Post and Times Herald's liberal cartoonist Herbert Block (Herblock) on TV were scrapped "by mutual consent" (TIME...
...sort that is expected of men and women in a society where the individual conscience is recognized as the supreme authority. It is a course more likely to produce public respect and self-respect than any pleading of a constitutional immunity. And if it does not save the pleader from prison, it will save him at least from an enduring sense of shame...