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...Queen Victoria would have none of it. Distressed by a spate of assassination attempts (three on herself and one on her prince consort, Albert), she asked the House of Lords to review the case, said Kaufman. "With the Queen's hot breath on him," the presiding judge in M'Naghten's case reversed himself and applied the "right-wrong" standard...
...jamboree for the visiting lion of liberty. He was given splendid receptions, pronounced "noble" by the poet laureate, and half a million Londoners yelled their heads off. He had the good sense and bad taste to wear his red shirt nearly everywhere. There were only two sour notes. Queen Victoria was "deeply shocked" by the high-level attention paid to this subverter of established order. Karl Marx, then organizing the First International in England, huffed: "A miserable spectacle of imbecility...
...crime is nonetheless far from obsolete in Anglo-American law, says Goldberg. In Australia in 1959, for example, the Victoria Supreme Court upheld the misprision conviction of a man who knew who shot him but refused to tell the police. In England in 1961, the House of Lords upheld the similar conviction of a man who had discovered an arms theft at a U.S. Air Force base but failed to report it. In the U.S., says Goldberg, misprision of felony is a perfectly viable common-law charge in Vermont, a statutory offense in Maine, and a 176-year-old federal...
Elections were then held for a new president, recording secretary, and corresponding secretary. Despite a suggestion from the floor that the Harvard Dramatic Club could not have a Radcliffe president, Honor Moore `67 was overwhelmingly elected. Victoria G. Traube `68 was chosen recording secretary and Francine L. Stone `68 corresponding secretary...
...primarily a commercial art. But as the reading public becomes more sophisticated, the jacket must appeal more by dignity and artistic merit than by sensationalism. By 1949, according to Kleist, enough worthy book-jacket art had appeared to warrant the first International Book-Jacket Exhibition, held in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. Kleist himself staged exhibitions...