Word: potterer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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George M.A. Hanfmann, professor of Fine Arts, will lead a party of fourteen in futher excavation efforts at Sardis, Turkey. Hanfmann's group made an exceptional find last year when they discovered a potter's workshop dating from the time of the Lydian kings...
Historically, wrote Justice Felix Frankfurter for the majority (Justices Tom Clark, John Marshall Harlan, Charles Evans Whittaker, Potter Stewart), the constitutional protections of privacy were designed to prevent officials from seizing evidence to be used against the householder in a criminal case without due process of law. "Giving the fullest scope to this constitutional right to privacy, its protection cannot be here invoked . . . No evidence for criminal prosecution is sought to be seized . . . Here was no midnight knock on the door but an orderly visit in the middle of the afternoon . . . Time and experience have forcefully taught that the power...
...their frequent irritation at Supreme Court decisions, some Senators cannot resist the temptation to make court appointees squirm. Last week Cincinnati's Potter Stewart, 44, youngest justice in 20 years, got the special treatment when the Judiciary Committee took up his interim appointment (to succeed ailing Justice Harold Burton, TIME...
Eastland began baiting Stewart on the legal reasoning in 1954's keystone Brown v. Board of Education desegregation decision. Replied Potter Stewart evenly: "I didn't come here today to criticize the institution of the Supreme Court or to do any harm to it ... I never so far as I know decided a case on any basis other than applying the law as I understand it to the facts ... In many cases the law is not easy to find. Certainly, in many cases before the Supreme Court of the U.S. If they were easy cases, they would...
Died. James G. Stewart, 77, Ohio Supreme Court judge, longtime (1938-47) mayor of Cincinnati, father of U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Potter Stewart; of a heart attack; in Louisville...