Word: writtings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Order to Return. While Toth was being yanked back to Korea, his family hired Pittsburgh Attorney Anthony McGrath, who sued for a writ of habeas corpus. The Air Force, McGrath insisted, had no right to take Toth into custody. He had been arrested without a warrant, moreover, and spirited out of the country with no hearing before a competent civilian authority. The Air Force claimed the authority of Article 3a of the Uniform Code of Military Justice, which states that former servicemen who committed major crimes while in military service "shall not be relieved from amenability to trial by courts...
...weak Burmese government, which has never controlled its borders since the British Raj departed, Li's lawless veterans are "foreign bandits" who defy its writ, pillage its merchants and give the Chinese Communists an ever-ready excuse for threatening invasion. Last month, in a burst of near unanimity, the U.N. General Assembly condemned Li Mi and advised his guerrillas to get out or be interned. Li Mi refused, and in so doing defied the world. Last week, in Formosa where he is recuperating from a heart attack, he told TIME Correspondent John Meeklin his side of the story...
This is essentially the General Education policy writ small: by presenting topics which occupy teachers in the Social and Natural Sciences and the Humanities to freshmen, the Faculty hopes to stimulate more undergraduates to individual work on those subjects. It does not require students to digest whole fields of knowledge. Surely this is a suitable rationale for the language requirement...
When St. Paul told the Christians of Corinth that "the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life,"* he was using inspiring language. But, as his successors soon found out, without the letter of Christianity, which includes church doctrine as well as Holy Writ, the spirit would have a hard time getting itself heard and handed down. It is a fact, however, that letter and spirit, despite the best intentions, often get in each other's way. So they did last week in Chapel Hill...
Casner Law Club won a mock trial against Cardozo Club in the Law School's first semi-final Ames competition last night, when Judge Herbert F. Goodrich, L.L.B. '14, of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, declined Cardozo's appeal that a writ of Habeus Corpus be sustained in the "United States v. Stephen Crasnov...