Word: stoning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Justices Black and Stone, in separate opinions, found nothing in the U. S. Constitution to render Federal salaries immune. In a concurring opinion, Justice Frankfurter observed: "Whether Congress may, by express legislation, relieve its functionaries from their civic obligations to pay the benefits of the State governments under which they live, is matter for another...
...year-old Robert Eugene, who had himself renamed Alt, charged with mail fraud. Indicted with them was James Cleary, who had signed letters soliciting funds, promising repayment when the estate was secured of $200 for $1. The letters claimed that Thomas Edmund Dewey, Supreme Court Justice Harlan Fiske Stone and Chairman Winthrop Aldrich of Manhattan's great Chase National Bank were all interested in the case. Though indicted, James Cleary was not tried, for the good reason that he was imaginary...
Seniors and graduate students will be able to take a course in "The History of the Book" next year, according to an authoritative announcement from Widener Library yesterday. The new course marks the latest stepping-stone in the rapid progress of the recently created Department of Printing and Graphic Arts...
...Striking a solid object at 25 will do you and your car about the same damage as if you had driven off a two-story building. Encountering a stone wall at 50 will be just as serious as if you had dropped from an eight-story building...
...defeated Alee Early in the 121 pound class by a fall in 3 minutes and 22 seconds, won the 128 pound title by a decision over Jim Redman, and nabbed the 130 pound title by defeating Early a second time, by decision. In the 145 pound class Ray Stone threw Art Kincade in eight minutes and 34 seconds...