Word: writtings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Things not seen on the open sea. Writ Armistice...
...bench, put the case into headlines. Thundered the San Francisco News: "It took centuries of bloody struggle to outlaw star chamber sessions, and the principle which requires judicial proceedings to be conducted in public still must be vigorously defended." San Francisco papers raced to get a higher court writ that would open up the courtroom. They won an order for Judge Geary either to open his court to the press or give an appellate court the reasons for his refusal...
...flood of frivolous attacks on state court convictions has depreciated the great writ of habeas corpus and has interfered with state judicial administration, Justice Walter V. Schaefer of the Illinois Supreme Court warned yesterday. The writ allows prisoners to challenge the legal grounds on which they are being held...
...duck the humiliation and inconvenience of arrest, Adhemar took to his (Beechcraft and flew off to Asunción, Paraguay, leaving his lawyers to seek a writ of habeas corpus from the federal supreme court and deploy themselves for an appeal. As a matter of course, Adhemar issued a manifesto before he took off. "My flag will not be lowered," it read. "Without hatred or rancor for those who attacked me so cruelly, I ask the people to wait quietly for better days. Justice is often tardy, but sure...
Britain suffered its worst humiliation in years when Jordan's young King Hussein sacked the famed Lieut. General John Bagot Glubb and sent him out of the country under armed guard. In the golden years when Britain's political writ ran clear and strong through all the ancient kingdoms from Egypt to Iran, Britain created Jordan. Over the years Britain protected the new Arab nation, supported it, gave it an army that was the Arab world's finest. Britain educated its young King, helped maintain him on his throne as it had his grandfather before...