Word: writs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week a lieutenant of police called on Ted Scott at his office, politely arrested him. On the way to the police station Scott bounced out of a car, ran across a street into the Canal Zone, only to be bounced back by Zone authorities. A writ of habeas corpus that he secured rebounded off a convenient Panamanian statute denying this right to foreigners charged with meddling in local politics...
General Hugh Samuel Johnson is a lively columnist, a good Episcopalian, a strong believer in conscription. Last week, seeking ammunition for a pro-conscription broadside, Columnist Johnson resorted to Holy Writ. Titling a column "Biblical Draft," he cited Scripture to his purpose: Numbers XXVI, 1-2, for registration of the whole adult population and classification as to its availability for military service; Numbers XXXI, 3-4, for assignment of quotas, and Deuteronomy XX, 5-9, for a likely list of exemptions from active service...
Former pastor of the Calvary Baptist Church of Fresno, Wall petitioned the District Court of Appeals for a writ of prohibition to prevent the University authorities from paying Russell's salary and to force voiding of his contract with U.C.L.A...
...went Coghlan and Fitzpatrick in a sheriff's custody but were soon released on a writ of habeas corpus pending review of their case by the State Supreme Court. A silent spectator of these maneuvers was scholarly Irving Dilliard, editorial writer for the Post-Dispatch. A Nieman Fellow at Harvard last year (TIME, April 8), Dilliard is an authority on the Supreme Court, a good friend of Justice Felix Frankfurter...
...decision," he bellowed when the Court made Indians Government wards, "now let him enforce it!" Abraham Lincoln, whose election was due in no small part to Chief Justice Roger B. Taney's pro-slavery decision against old Dred Scott, ordered an Army fort commander to ignore a writ of habeas corpus issued by Chief Justice Taney. U. S. Grant packed the Court, got a 4-3 unfavorable decision reversed...