Word: warrens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina and Virginia-had demanded that the court declare unconstitutional the law's "triggering device," which prohibits literacy tests in blatantly discriminatory Southern states and authorizes entry of federal registrars to sign up new voters. In refusing to do so, Chief Justice Earl Warren ruled that these "stringent remedies" were "a valid means for carrying out the commands of the 15th Amendment," which empowers Congress to take "appropriate" measures to bar voting discrimination. "Hopefully," said Warren's briskly worded, 31-page opinion, "millions of nonwhite Americans will now be able to participate...
After Lie Detector Expert Warren D. Holmes said that his tests indicated Shea was innocent, the airman made another confession and this time signed it. Though Crime Lab Supervisor Edward D. Whittaker testified that Shea's shirt was splattered with his own B-type blood and there was only one spot of Mary Meslener's O-type, the confession persuaded a jury to find Shea guilty of first-degree murder and to recommend mercy...
...Liberties Union argued that Trial Judge Edward Blythin should have removed the trial to a "remote county" of Ohio. In view of the "massive publicity," Berkman went on to say, the defendant had a right to choose his own place of trial. In that circumstance, said Chief Justice Earl Warren, "where we have so many news media-television, radio, newspapers-no trial would be had in a big city if the defendant wanted to go some place else...
Crimson sophomore Bill Shrout will probably swim in the 100-yard freestyle, where his best time is 0:48.7, although he could land in the 50 or 200 also. Against Eli captain Joe Hill, Schollander, Army's Warren Trainor, and a couple of fine Princeton sprinters, he will have his work cut out for him to earn a place...
...most of the season, Yale was a one-line team, and they were buried deep in the ECAC standings. It was quite a line, with juniors Jack Walsh, Jack Morrison, and Warren Gelman averaging about two goals per game among them, but they were carrying the load alone...