Word: reading
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...coincidence that Mrs. Sawyer had half finished a letter to Baroness Wrangel enclosing a check to her when I read your article. I hope that your reply will release the letter...
Chief Justice William Howard Taft read the decision and was supported by Associate Justices McReynolds, Sanford, Sutherland, Van Devanter. He upheld the use of wiretapping evidence, said: "The United States takes no such care of telegraph or telephone messages as of mailed sealed letters. The amendment does not forbid what was done here. There was no searching. The evidence was secured by the use of the sense of hearing and that only. There was no entry of the houses or offices of the defendants. The language of the amendment cannot be extended and expanded to include telephone wires reaching...
Associate Justices Brandeis, Holmes, Butler, Stone dissented from the majority decision. The dissenting opinions of that distinguished pair of liberal scholars, a Jew and a Yankee, Louis Dembitz Brandeis and Oliver Wendell Holmes, were as vitriolic as any ever read into the records of the Supreme Court...
...queries of the deacous and elders. But, though he went on to say that the book was based on the experiences of a young, unsophisticated minister, and that his purpose was only to maintain interest in his meetings, the conservative board voted angrily for good old gospel sermons, and read its ultimatum to him. There was no escape. Another baton is dropped before it can even be handed on; the old-time religion scores a coup the voices of gold, once ringing melodiously on Sunday evenings, are stilled, and their author must meekly resume the old, old path...
...chairman of the directors of the combination; Clarence Dillon to be chairman of the directors' finance committee; Edward G. WTilmer to be president. Mr. Wilmer, by training a lawyer, has been Dodge Bros, president since Clarence Dillon took control in 1925. Mr. Dillon made Mr. Wilmer a Dillon-Read partner. He is a superb executive, the sort of man Mr. Chrysler himself is, except that Mr. Chrysler is also an automotive engineer almost without equal...