Word: turning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Liberals. After last week's decisions the Christian Science Monitor headlined across three columns: SUPREME COURT PICKS ROAD OF LIBERALISM, and it seemed clearly apparent that the new court was following Earl Warren's signposts. This was the newest turn in as fast-moving a 20 years as the court has ever known-and some Washingtonians believed that it had taken the court farther leftward than at any time since Franklin Roosevelt's day. Roosevelt's most liberal court was built (from 1943 to 1946) around Justices Hugo Black, William Douglas, Frank Murphy and Wiley Rutledge...
Most cases brought before the Supreme Court turn on questions of law, but the basic issue in the Du Pont case was interpretation of the facts. Judge LaBuy had found "no need ... to discuss legal principles or precedents," because in his opinion the facts did not prove the Government's charges. In overruling LaBuy, the Supreme Court took the same set of facts and saw in them a "reasonable probability" that was invisible to LaBuy...
...from the airport in a 15-car motorcade to the official guest house, which housed the Japanese Governors-General in Japan's prewar days as ruler of Formosa. Kishi presented Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek with two embroidered silk comforter covers (a standard Japanese wedding gift), received in turn from the Gimo two grass bed mats and a decorative ship model fashioned from pale pink seashells. The old enemies got along quite well...
Citation: "The greatest tribute to our democracy is that in America we have men like Sherman Adams to whom we can turn to lead us in our public affairs, and it is also a tribute to our democratic instincts that as a people we do turn to such...
...them, and yet nobody was willing to abolish them. Everybody agreed in theory that all students had unique needs and that no system could possibly do these individuals justice. And yet with monotonous regularity the abolition of one unsatisfactory system was succeeded by the installation of another, which in turn was abolished when it too failed to achieve the undefined end, "the liberal education...