Word: william
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...state but against the Federal Government. Wrote Justice Clark: "All the [Nelson] opinion proscribed was a race between federal and state prosecutors to the courthouse door. The opinion made clear that a State could proceed with prosecutions for sedition against the State itself." In a dissent written by Justice William Brennan and joined by Chief Justice Warren and Justices Hugo Black and William Douglas, the court's staunchly civil righteous minority protested that the entire New Hampshire investigation of Uphaus was "exposure purely for the sake of exposure...
Quiet Leave-Taking. State Attorney William D. Hopkins passionately asked the all-male, all-white jury for equal justice under law, regardless of race. "This law-enforcement proposition has got to be consistent if it's going to be successful." In his charge to the jury, Judge Walker ordered that the case be considered "without regard to race, color or creed...
John D. Rockefeller III, chairman, Rockefeller Foundation LL.D. Citation: ''Your modesty cannot conceal from a grateful people the significance of your labor." William P. Rogers. U.S. Attorney General LL.D...
...costly and intensive search for what the oldtime druggist called botanicals is based on solid historical fact. Checking an old wives' brew used in Shropshire to bolster failing hearts, William Withering found in 1775 that the active ingredient came from the common foxglove, thus stumbled upon digitalis-still a sovereign remedy. Only 28 years ago, Western-trained physicians in India concluded that there was more magic than myth in ancient snakeroot remedies for high blood pressure and some emotional disturbances, pointed the way to the isolation of reserpine-now flourishing as a multimillion-dollar prescription item. Ephedrine, which...
...pale, finely chiseled face, a long nose and a pointed beard. On his way from Paris to Strasbourg, where he planned to settle down and study, he was detoured through Geneva by military operations, intended to stay in the city only overnight. But a red-bearded Protestant named William Farel, who was having his troubles advancing the Reformation in Geneva, had heard of the brilliant Frenchman's arrival and went to him at his inn to beg him to stay. Calvin declined. Farel roared at him: "You are simply following your own wishes, and I declare in the name...