Word: writting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...remotest evidence that Harvard has reached its decision in any manner other than honesty, faithfully, and for what it considers to be the best interests of the Arboretum." Then, in the case Ames et al v. Attorney General, filed in the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, the petitioners sought a writ of mandamus to force the Attorney General to use his name in a test suit. On February 11, 1955, the court ruled that it lacked jurisdiction to force the Attorney General to act in such a case...
...flown to Korea to stand trial on a charge of murder committed while he was in the Air Force (TIME, Aug. 31, 1953). Before the court-martial could be called, however, the Air Force was forced to return him to the U.S., and Toth was released under a writ of habeas corpus. His case, a test of the military's authority over some 21 million living veterans, is pending before the Supreme Court...
...Communists always impervious to the U.N.'s moral writ. In the battle for men's minds, they cannot afford to be. Soviet troops pulled out of Iran in 1946 soon after the Security Council cocked an eye at their presence. Russian delegates pay the U.N. the compliment of hypocrisy, invariably attempting to justify their conduct on the basis of the U.N. charter; Red China seeks desperately to join the U.N. club...
WHAT would you say is the devil's favorite text from the Bible? High among the devil's preferences in Holy Writ must be the verses that can be perversely warped out of their real meaning to make nice booby traps. Here is a beauty: "For you always have the poor with you." That has been continuously twisted by knaves to induce the belief that the evil of poverty is set in the world as permanently as gravitation. Another honey, lifted out of its context and distorted, is, "I have not come to bring peace, but a sword...
...sentenced to hang. A great deal of doubt and bitterness surrounded the case, and Columnist Mark Sullivan wrote that it "fanned into a new flame for the moment the old animosities of the North and South of 50 years ago." The U.S. Supreme Court refused to grant a writ of habeas corpus, but a dissenting opinion-written by Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes with Charles Evans Hughes concurring-caused a sensation. "It is our duty," said the minority justices, "to declare lynch law as little valid when practiced by a regularly drawn jury as when administered by one elected...