Word: warrens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...both decisions the vote was 7 to 1, Chief Justice Earl Warren dissenting. For the majority, Justice John M. Harlan noted that most states and the Federal Government outlaw gambling. Thus anyone complying with the law would automatically provide evidence-freely made available to state authorities-that he was planning something illegal. Said one St. Louis bookie, asked if he had bought a stamp: "No. It's worth it to keep the feds off your back. But the minute you buy one, the state knows what's going...
Chief Justice Warren worried that the ruling would place gamblers in a "privileged class." In his opinion, no self-incrimination occurred until registered information was used to aid prosecution. Rather than declare the law unconstitutional, he urged, why not restrict the use of such data...
...justices' questions immediately went to the heart of those arguments. Chief Justice Earl Warren asked O'Brien's attorney whether it would also be symbolic speech for a soldier in Viet Nam to "break his weapon in front of other soldiers?" As for the purpose of O'Brien's card, added Warren, "we have millions of people in this country floating around. What if he is found in Arizona and he refuses to give any information and the Government wants his card so that it can know his draft status...
...Roche's law: "Those who can conspire haven't got the time; those who do conspire haven't got the talent." Last week, in a letter to the London Times Literary Supplement congratulating Oxford Don John Sparrow for his incisive, 18,000-word defense of the Warren Commission Report (TIME, Dec. 22), Roche raised a point that has been overlooked-or ignored-by the report's myriad critics...
Other members of the committee are Herschel C. Baker, professor of English; Merle Fainsod, Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor; Oscar Handlin, Charles Warren Professor of American History; George B. Kistiakowsky, Abbot and James Lawrence Professor of Chemistry; Edward S. Mason, Lamont University Professor, and J. C. Street, Professor of Physics...