Word: writs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Judge Metzger wanted the whole legal hog or none. He decided to make a test with an ancient civil weapon: the writ of habeas corpus. Two U.S. citizens of German ancestry had been held for months in an Army detention camp. Judge Metzger's writ ordered the Army to hand the prisoners over to the civil courts...
...Louisville, Collector of Internal Revenue S. R. Glenn granted his writ ten request to himself for a 60-day extension to pay the first quarter of his income...
There was to be a by-election at Eddisbury. A routine but necessary preliminary was a motion in the House of Commons, authorizing the Speaker to issue a writ for the by-election. Last week, when this motion was put, Sir Richard Acland popped up and made Eddisbury's by-election a national topic...
...more obvious absurdities of the New York State political campaign is one of the sorriest commentaries on American government since that same state expelled five Socialists from the Legislature. The American Legion, inspired by a clause in its preamble promising a defense of Americanism, has applied for a writ banning the Communist Party from the ballot next fall. In several upstate counties a virtual reign of terror has been undertaken in an attempt to force signers of the nominating petitions to repudiate their signatures. All this, in the name of "Americanism...
...There's too much history being writ ten where men are dying." Cordially...