Word: potter
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...defendant shall be deemed sufficient evidence to authorize his conviction." Last week that law came before the Supreme Court in the case of Jackie Gainey, a Georgia moonshiner who had been nabbed near a still. Upholding the law 8 to 1, the court, in a majority opinion by Justice Potter Stewart noted that moonshiners are "notorious for the deftness with which they locate arcane spots for plying their trade." Because strangers "rarely penetrate the curtain of secrecy," it is reasonable to assume that anyone around a still is in on the secret...
After his Law School graduation, Frankfurter joined the New York law office of Hornblower, Byrne, Miller & Potter. But within a year he left private practice to work for Henry L. Stimson, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York. When Stimson became Secretary of War in Taft's cabinet, Frankfurter followed him to Washington, working as his assistant. In those years in Washington Frankfurter had a hand in the founding of the New Republic...
...game began with a flurry. And after just three minutes Frank Mackey, taking a pass from Baldy Smith, had scored the game's first goal--his first of the season. Three minutes later, Kenny Burnes fired a shot past Colby's sophomore goalle, Leland Potter, and Harvard was off to a 2-0 lead...
Colby then scored twice before the Crimson's Bobby Clark, taking advantage of a traffic jam in front of the Colby nets, drilled a high shot past Potter at 15:26 of the second period. This was the beginning of the Price-Waldinger scoring binge, each man picking up an assist on this goal by Clark...
Future Decision. Justice White's opinion left intact, for now, "what is claimed to be a valid ban on interracial marriage." Though concurring, Justice Potter Stewart sharply protested what he called the court's implication that such a law might be valid if the state could show "some overriding statutory purpose." Said Stewart: "I think it is simply not possible for a state law to be valid under our Constitution which makes the criminality of an act depend on the race of the actor." Although the majority stuck to the limits of the specific case before...