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In 1919 Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes asserted that repressive measures were justified only when a "clear and present danger" existed. By such a definition, Franklin Roosevelt clearly had good reason to authorize the use of wiretaps in 1940 in matters involving "the defense of the nation." But his decision in...
Died. Arna Wendell Bontemps, 70, prolific black author and a leader of the literary movement of the '20s known as the "Harlem Renaissance"; of a heart attack; in Nashville, Tenn. The 1946 musical St. Louis Woman, which presented Pearl Bailey in her first Broadway role, was based on Bontemps...
The method: shrewd conclusion based on empirical observation. What the eyes could see, the wits could solve. At the zenith of the Darwinian revolution, Oliver Wendell Holmes assured his countrymen: "Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper-chamber, if he has common-sense...
The greatest modern lawyers and jurists, from Clarence Darrow to Oliver Wendell Holmes and Earl Warren, have been men noted for their humane reactions and good common sense, rather than their technical legal craftsmanship.
The constitutional conflict could end up before the Supreme Court, but a clear-cut answer is unlikely. "Great ordinances of the Constitution," wrote Oliver Wendell Holmes, "do not establish and divide fields of black and white. We cannot carry out the distinction between legislative and executive action with mathematical precision...