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...issue was most clearly drawn in the case of Ohio-born Private Albert L. Trop, who escaped from an Army stockade in French Morocco in 1944, went over the hill, was picked up the next day, convicted of desertion and sent out with a dishonorable discharge. In 1952 he applied for a passport and was refused on grounds, clearly supported by a congressional act, that his desertion had cost him his citizenship. Chief Justice Earl Warren wrote the majority opinion, with Justices Hugo Black, William O. Douglas and Charles Evans Whittaker joining. William Brennan concurred. Felix Frankfurter, Harold Burton...
Burgum stressed that the charges were so drawn as to be unsusceptible of defense, that the evidence was irrelevant, that some of the witnesses were "a trop of paid informers." He generally defied the faculty committee...
...Paris, Rita Hay worth watched Aly Khan finish next to last in a horse race for gentlemen jockeys (gibed the railbirds: "Trop d'amour"). She also announced that they would get married "within four weeks. I wish it could be sooner," she added demurely, "but we have to wait...
Since the instructor is essentially the foundation on which the tutorial system rests, any question of a sufficiency or insufficiency of funds, or of the ability of some students to absorb anything from the tutorial method, is de trop without first a thorough overhauling of the guiding standards of the ad hoc committee. Unless a higher premium is placed on good teaching, the tutorial system can only continue to dissatisfy an increasing number of students and Faculty...
...confused. Vous make le steep turn trop bankay...