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...Northeastern business school in Chicago. And business English is short and "Kicky". At last the lie is passed to Shakespeare, Browne, and Johnson, and all the other foreigners who talked over the businessman's head: they didn't write good English. The son of the Rotarian may henceforth plead scot-free of Milton: he didn't write good English...
That, in outlining their defense (all the defendants declared they would plead "Not Guilty"), the newspapers fell back upon the First Amendment to the U. S. Constitution, that Amendment which guarantees to the press the right of free speech. Everyone was agreed that the law provided that the tax lists should be placed "open to public inspection." The question, as the Herald-Tribune framed it, would therefore be: "Can Congress say, 'You may talk, but you may not write...
Countered Judge Talley, upholder of the death penalty, the Chicago trial coming to his mind: "You can't blow hot and cold on this. You can't on one day plead for a man because he is poor, and on the next ask mercy because he is rich and over-educated." He stated that were the death penalty abolished, there would be no possible deterrent to killing, since no criminal feared the pleasant conditions of a jail. In prison, Judge Talley said, ruffians are bedded with a comfort, fed with a largess, that they could never themselves have...
Whatever the practical results of this disarmament, it will doubtless produce considerable rejoicing among historians, for it will skim from the troublous ocean of international causes its deceptive surface of oil. After the next war apologists of the great powers will scarcely be able to plead intervention--for protection of tiny states, involved in unequal struggles--as the lawful motive for participation...
...Chaloner, who very kindly has acted as my counsel in this trying matter during the year 1924, has advised me to plead guilty. I therefore do so. I am very, very sorry, and I have suffered severely. I therefore ask the public to please try to forget the past and look at my work in Paris during the next five years as the proof of my sincere devotion...