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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dissenting, Justice Hugo Black cracked that "This notion is too subtle for me to grasp," was joined in his usual hard core of liberals by Chief Justice Earl Warren and Justice William O. Douglas. "The court apparently takes the position," charged Black, "that a second trial for the same act is somehow less offensive if one of the trials is conducted by the Federal Government and the other by a state." In a surprising aside he noted that the majority opinions would work a hardship only on "the poor and the weak without friends in high places" who could "influence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SUPREME COURT: Double Jeopardy | 4/13/1959 | See Source »

Philip Alston Stone '62 is a native of Oxford, Mississippi and a godson of William Faulkner, which explains why No Place to Run concerns itself with derring-do and decadence in Dixie. The South is, of course, just about the best place in the world for an American writer to be born, and Stone has certainly wasted no time in cashing in his chips...

Author: By George H. Watson, | Title: Squalid Life in Mississippi: The Same Old Tale Retold | 4/11/1959 | See Source »

Deans Monro and Von Stade will give the keynote addresses for the three-day conference tonight and William Park, president of Simmons College, will speak tomorrow...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Conference to Begin | 4/10/1959 | See Source »

Opposed to recognizing Red China or admitting her to the U.N., William Henry Chamberlin, correspondent for the Wall Street Journal, insisted that such actions would violate principles of the U.N.Charter. He admitted the possibility of a rift between China and Russia, but claimed that only a "firm policy" would help create such a rift...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Debaters Argue Action on China | 4/9/1959 | See Source »

Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. '38, professor of History, and Bernice B. Cronkhite, dean of the Radcliffe Graduat School, will speak in the "briefing session on Wednesday, April 15. On Thursday, April 16, Lincoln Gordon '34, William Ziegler Professor of International Economic Relations, and Stanley S. Surrey, M.Ed. '50, Jeremiah Smith, Jr. Professor of Law, will preside as chairmen of two panels...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Members of Faculty To Address Meeting | 4/6/1959 | See Source »

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