Word: writ
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nazi Financial Wizard Hjalmar Schaicht, in the fourth year of an eightyear prison term, lost a fight to spring himself on a habeas corpus writ...
...Terre Haute, Ind., William Dudley Pelley, ex-Silver Shirts leader serving 15 years for sedition, lost a fight to spring himself on a writ of habeas corpus...
...Terre Haute, Ind., William Dudley Pelley, onetime leader of the Silver Shirts, hoped to spring himself out of the pen on a writ of habeas corpus. Six years after his conviction for sedition, Pelley argued that the only thing proved against him was that he was against Communism...
Under the law of the English, whose writ ran for a third of mankind, it was fixed that whenever a person, however humble, died of violence or even unexpectedly, public inquiry was made into the causes of his death. If guilt seemed to fall upon another, a trial was held and punishment sought lest murder, undetected or held lightly, spread...
...almost succeeded (though the attendant fanfare makes it possible that the danger was not so close a thing as advertised). In any event, the big precedent of a strong world police force seems for the first time something more than a vague wish. If nations are indeed merely individuals writ large, the states of the world may soon be learning the delights of having a cop handy when there is a criminal loose in the neighborhood...