Word: racks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...murder, whose statements, claimed to have been made when they were brutally whipped by deputy sheriffs, were admitted in evidence as confessions. The Chief Justice of the U. S. was not disinterested. With vibrant voice he called attention to the "due-process" clause of the Constitution, declared, "The rack and the torture chamber may not be substituted for the witness stand," set aside the sentences. Having contributed to the dramatic tension by putting human rights first, Chief Justice Hughes took up property rights next. The case: minority preferred stock-holders of Alabama Power Co. who asked that the Supreme Court...
...Uncle Sam is closing in on the Duke with a vengeance. Tenser and tenser becomes the rack on which everybody including the audience is strung, until there comes the inevitable snap. Startling things happen in the denouement, to the staccato tune of rifle and machine-gun fire. And as you leave the theatre, slightly stupefied, you find all sorts of psychological problems of intricate relationships and true identities clamoring for solution. You also find six or sever characters impressed indelibly if somewhat confusedly upon you memory, which is saying a lot for a movie. "The Petrified Forest" is an awesome...
...unquestioned and rightly so, but the higher a power, the greater the tendency to abuse it. The body of the Senate and the Press, but especially TIME'S account of Nye v. Morgan, both editorially & pictorially shows how a person or group may be pilloried on the rack of Senatorial aggrandizement...
...part: "It would certainly seem that a government which is so liberal, not to say wasteful, in spending the people's money, might use some of the money for the useful and needful purpose of purging the country of the murderers, robbers, kidnappers, blackmailers, gangsters and rack- eteers which have invaded it from other lands as vermin invade a neglected house...
...indication of the growing popularity of bicycles in the new rack that is being built in Eliot House. Twenty bike owners have already reserved places...