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...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...
...seven in jail, armed with letters from their relatives. "We had and still have much trouble be cause of you, and the amount of tears we have shed would nearly make a bath for you," wrote one rebel's family. The sailors recognized the letters as having been writ ten under pressure. Dropping all pretense, the Polish government brusquely demanded the sailors extradition...
...race horse, or a yacht, A billiard table, or a course Of easy lectures on divorce, Though none of these should I describe As dangers to the British tribe. Nor should I draw my child's attention To certain bits I will not mention In Holy Writ, in Shakespeare's plays, And other works of olden days. I should not give her Law Reports (O dear, the things they say in courts...
Berle draws a detailed picture of the American corporate colossus. Great kings have lived and their names are writ in the folk memory of the world who had not a tenth of the power of many a U.S. corporation headed by a half-anonymous member of the country club. But the limits-they are knottier. The statists believe that the essential limitation on corporate power will be absorption by the Government of top corporate control. But Berle observes that the fascist and Communist efforts to swallow corporate power have not been successful in terms of economics, morals or politics...
...used by Harrell's feed company (TIME, March 30, 1953). Legally the cattlemen might have had a hard time collecting; chemical tests on dead cattle rarely show the naphthalene because the fatal quantities are so minute. Furthermore, since most feed contracts are on a handshake basis-with no writ ten guarantee of purity-the company might have squirmed out from under on the ground that the oil company making the lubricant had changed the formula without notice. Instead, President Harrell assumed full responsibility. Said he, in a letter to all of his customers: "This situation did not result from...