Word: virginians
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Perhaps Seigler, already convicted three times for robbery, calculated that if he was convicted for capital murder, he might be sent to the electric chair like Frank Coppola, a fellow Virginian executed two weeks ago. At 7:25 p.m., Seigler, ushered into the courtroom of Judge William E. Spain, accepted the deal. The jury, which had sent word of a verdict, was kept waiting while Spain approved the new plea. After Seigler was led away, the judge invited the jury into the room and informed them of the guilty plea. One juror slumped in a chair, while several others just...
...counts the Los Angeles Times, Long Island's Newsday and the Denver Post among its string of highly rated papers. The new owners started pumping in money and recruiting new blood from top papers across the country. In 1975 Executive Editor Kenneth Johnson, now 47, a tough West Virginian given to chainsmoking and chewing out reporters, was hired from his job as vice president at the Washington Post to revitalize the paper. His assessment of it at that time: "Provincial. The staff was too small and not aggressive enough. The scope of the coverage was too narrow." Within three...
Blackmun, who has moved increasingly to the left, probably works harder than the other judges on his decisions, which often reflect his ad hoc, personal sense of right and wrong. The courtly Virginian, Lewis Powell, is regarded as the great balancer, in the middle on almost every case. John Paul Stevens, the most original thinker on the court, is an iconoclastic loner who likes to file separate opinions that challenge old assumptions even when his conclusions coincide with those of his brothers. Byron White, the best pure lawyer on the court, is unpredictably liberal and unpredictably conservative, but meticulously careful...
...taken but place. the "happy The federal system was messy from the beginning. Literate Americans were sharply aware of the confusion of powers the Constitution would create. States'-righters like Patrick Henry knew that a pre-eminent national Government was proposed Said he: "This Government is not a Virginian, but an American Government." Nationalists like James Wilson clearly declared that the Constitution was to serve not theory but people-"Can we forget for whom we are forming a Government? Is it for men, or for the imaginary beings called states?" Indeed, arguments over the mess the Constitution was about...
...examine 19th century America, amidst its industrial clacking, economic growing pains, and political and social tension. Justin Kaplan appropriately spends a good part of his splendid biography creating the contexts for Whitman's experiences. On May 31, 1819, Kaplan tells us, Napoleon was dying of cancer on St. Helena, Virginian James Monroe was strutting about a rebuilt White House in knee breeches, a financial panic was threatening the young nation--and Walter and Louisa Whitman had their second child, named after his father but always called "Walt" by members of the family...