Word: writs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Asking that $1,500,000 bequeathed to the City of Providence, R. I., for the planting and cultivation of certain trees, be forfeited to the University, attorneys have brought a writ of mandamus against the city, stating that it has failed to meet the conditions of the will. In accordance with the will, it was said that the money should revert to Harvard for scholarships for Providence high school graduates...
Artillery fire had damaged several gravestones between Keats's and the pyramid of Caius Cestius, a stone's throw away. Other greats in the same cemetery: Shelley, Trelawny, John Addington Symonds. Keats's name goes unmentioned on his own gravestone ("Here lies one whose name was writ in water"), but is inscribed on that of his painter-friend Severn, buried by his side...
Wilby preferred to remain in Canada, refused to waive extradition. Last week he appealed for a writ of habeas corpus, lost. Lest Wilby's lawyers and the Canadian courts have a second thought about the case, the New York detectives hustled Wilby out of town, started for the States by way of roundabout Nanaimo. They were too slow. British Columbia's Attorney General ordered Wilby returned for a new appeal. Said the angry Attorney General: "I don't think any responsible United States official would countenance this hide & seek procedure...
...their clients, who have shown little enthusiasm for democratic ways, the 22 lawyers energetically demanded every final democratic safeguard. All week long the legalists bobbed up & down, objecting, concurring, complaining. They protested because the court reporter worked for a firm with an allegedly Jewish executive. They applied for a writ of mandamus to have the whole thing dropped. They said there were too many policemen in court for a "relaxed" atmosphere-and FBI agents had been "persecuting" the accused. When Prosecutor 0. John Rogge inadvertently let slip that this was the third indictment for some of the defendants, the whole...
...shift in emphasis. It is true, says Beard, that Hamilton thought of the "people" as a "great beast." But in The Federalist the "bastard brat of a Scotch peddler" (as John Adams called Hamilton) hailed the Constitution as a "people's document." The privilege of the "writ of habeas corpus," which guarantees individuals and groups against arbitrary imprisonment, covered everybody, not merely the "rich, wellborn and able." At one point in the symposium on "A More Perfect Union and Justice," Dr. Smyth tries to get Beard to admit that Hamilton believed in "Federalist party justice." But the indefatigable Uncle...