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...There are still many of us to whom his personality and achievements are a vivid memory. He used characteristically to disclaim any right to be long remembered, saying that a college president's name was 'writ in water'. His biographer, however felt differently and said 'he opened paths for our children's feet to follow; something of him will be part of us forever...
...story, insisted she betrayed Dillinger. In return, said Tipstress Sage Melvin Purvis, then chief Chicago investigator of the Department of Justic promised to sidetrack deportation proceedings against her. While Director J. Edgar Hoover of the Division of Invest gation denied any such deal, the Chicago judge granted a temporary writ to prevent her deportation...
...first time been able to put their case in full before the California Supreme Court. Acting on a suggestion from the U. S. Supreme Court when it refused to free their client, last winter, they were now asking California's highest bench, through a referee, for a writ of habeas corpus on the ground that Mooney was convicted on perjured testimony with the knowledge of the prosecution. Granting of such a writ would be tantamount to acquittal...
...Manifesto of 1890, the penalty for getting caught is excommunication. Mormon officials still find it necessary to deplore polygamy publicly. But a monthly magazine called Truth, published in Salt Lake City, is a spirited defender of the abandoned practice, bolstered with copious quotations from Mormon law, Mormon writ and the sayings of the founders...
...condemned by the Book, when she tricked Judah into a public exposé of his fun-loving nature, in Genesis 38. Not being allowed to send obscene matters through the mails in this empire of holy brethren, I can only cite you the passages involved in Holy Writ, trusting that you have a Bible at hand which has not been censored by any members of the cloth...