Word: term
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...days later, Chief Justice Earl Warren, addressing the American Law Institute in Washington, offered an indirect defense. Said he: "We have every reason to believe that at the last session of this term we will be able to say, as the court has said every year since 1928, when it acquired the certiorari* jurisdiction, that all cases ready for argument have been heard and decided." But by Warren's own figures, Frankfurter had a point. At last reckoning, the Supreme Court had disposed of 1,415 cases during its present term, compared with 1,391 at the same stage...
...call, and the Wilkins statement was material for their hayrakes. "Wilkins gave Coleman a nice bouquet of roses wrapped in gold foil," cried State Democratic Chairman Bidwell Adam, charging that Coleman wanted "to sew up the 25,000 Negro votes." Barred by law from another term, Coleman is backing Lieutenant Governor Carroll Gartin. But in the aftermath of the Parker case, amid strong rumors that the FBI would have the killers this week, Coleman's support of Gartin was less than an asset. Said J. P. Coleman: "Nothing but the good sense of the Mississippi people can save...
...until August. Besides, Bandaranaike quickly patched up a new alliance with Parliament's three Communists and 14 Trotskyites, who resent Gunawardena's energetic bid for personal publicity and power. Trading on the jealousies that divide Ceylon's varied Marxists, Bandaranaike hopes to serve out his term till 1961, and seems secure for perhaps six months...
Wolfson retired at the end of last year and regards his first year as an emeritus professor as "a prolonged summer vacation." Actually, the professor has yet to experience full retirement. During fall term he had three graduate tutees, and this term he has been invited to read theses and conduct doctoral exams. His daily routine has been changed only by the fact that he has found time to accept invitations to lecture outside the University. He most recently was invited to deliver the Candler Lectures at Emory University. When he was still actively teaching, Professor Wolfson felt he couldn...
...write a series of books based on his undergraduate course, "Social and Intellectual History of the United States." He has devoted most of his time in retirement exclusively to this project, refusing any teaching offers and giving very few lectures. (One exception was his opening lecture of the spring term in History 169, on which he commented proudly, "of course, I just couldn't refuse my son.") He is not rushing his work because he feels he has plently of time--and he is thoroughly enjoying himself...