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Visiting in American Samoa was George A. Wray of Washington, D.C.'s prestigious law firm, Rhyne & Rhyne. Fascinated, Wray took Brown's case. At the trial last month, he raised a crucial question: Is Samoa's civil rights law constitutional...
...Wray noted, the Constitution does not "spontaneously" cover all U.S. territories. For example, the Supreme Court upheld mainland duties on Puerto Rican imports in 1901 (Downes v. Bidwell) because the Constitution's revenue clauses forbid such barriers only between states. But in that same case, Wray added, the court held that other clauses "providing fundamental personal liberties and basic rights automatically go everywhere with the flag." Thus applicable to territories is the Fifth Amendment guarantee of due process. And "due process" means, among other things, that a criminal law must be clear and specific enough for people to know...
...contraception, and the company is now manufacturing 3,000,000 pills a day. All told, the number of U.S. women using them is probably edging toward 3,000,000. And the manufacturers are almost certainly right in their calculation that the market will continue to grow. Dr. Edris Rice-Wray, one of the original investigators, first in Puerto Rico and now in Mexico, says: "It's extremely rare to find a woman willing to accept another method once she knows that 'the pills' exist. Even the poorest, with little or no schooling, are found to be faithful...
DAVID PASCAL WRAY New York City
...grim whimsy of the duchess'), he runs out and is run through by the bully boys. The duchess' crime does not pay: her rival sneaks into her boudoir and sprinkles her beauty mask with some awful acid. The segment ends with the loudest shrieks since Fay Wray met King Kong...