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...suspect for several months in his hotel suite without a warrant was permissible because police turned on video cameras only when an informant who was cooperating with officers entered the suspect's hotel room. In an opinion later overturned by the Supreme Court, he upheld a man's death sentence???even though his lawyers had failed to present evidence that he was abused as a child and had limited mental capacity?saying the defendant was demanding that his defense attorneys be more resourceful than the Constitution requires...
This excellent biography was written by Virginia Woolf s nephew. The first sentence???"Virginia Woolf was a Miss Stephen"?sets the stance: just a slight bow to a heavy heritage. More important than Bell's style is his detachment, a quality that he certainly did not inherit. The Stephen family was part of the intellectual wing of Britain's upper middle class; Virginia's father, Sir Leslie Stephen, was a famous essayist and man of letters. Altogether, they were an excitable clan, idealistic, moralistic, painfully interdependent, swept along by unrecognized currents of passionate attraction that stopped just short...
President Hoover made the Legionaires a speech (see p. 14). Calvin Coolidge appeared on the platform and got a thunderous two-minute ovation. Insistent cries of "Speech! Speech!" brought him forward to say: "To save the time of the Convention I will address you in one sentence???You have paid your debt to La Fayette but you still owe a debt to yourselves and to the nation." President Hoover smiled. There was no Hoover-Coolidge hobnobbing. After the Legion speech he proceeded with traffic difficulty to the Hotel Statler where an adulant crowd hustled the President and Mrs. Hoover through...
...momentous sentence???because it appeared in direct quotation in every newspaper of the country on the following morning. It was the first time in years that the public has been permitted to learn the actual words of a President?other than such as have appeared in public speeches, official messages and unconfirmed rumors?since the practice of holding official press conferences was begun by President Wilson...
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