Word: zechariah
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...departed among that select company--which includes such noble figures as Bliss Perry, Theodore Spencer, Zechariah Chafee, Perry Miller, and Raphael Demos--was increased by one with the death last Friday of Professor G. Wallace Woodworth. He was--and preferred to be--known, however, simply as "Woody," just as another Harvard giant, Charles T. Copeland, had been universally known to earlier generations as "Copey...
...January, 1953, a month before Furry's appearance before the HUAC, Arthur Sutherland, professor of Law, and Zechariah Chafee, Jr., University Professor and a respected civil libertarian, issued a statement intended to clear up ambivalent aspects of the fifth amendment. In sum, they argued that it was "ill-advised" for witnesses to withhold testimony on grounds of self-incrimination in court or before legislative investigation committees. The professors felt the citizen "is neither morally nor legally justified in attempting political protest by standing silent when obligated to speak." Also ruled out as a motive for silence was a "sense...
...January, 1953, a month before Furry's appearance before the HUAC, Arthur Sutherland, professor of Law, and Zechariah Chafee, Jr., University Professor and a respected civil libertarian, issued a statement intended to clear up ambivalent aspects of the fifth amendment. In sum, they argued that it was "ill-advised" for witnesses to withhold testimony on grounds of self-incrimination in court or before legislative investigation committees. The professors felt the citizen "is neither morally nor legally justified in attempting political protest by standing silent when obligated to speak." Also ruled out as a motive for silence was a "sense...
Assault in Three Ways. Chafee comes naturally by his political interests. His great-grandfather, Henry Lippitt, was Governor of Rhode Island from 1875 to 1877. A great-uncle, Charles Warren Lippitt, was Governor from 1895 to 1897. His uncle, Zechariah Chafee, a noted Harvard law professor, ran for the Providence board of aldermen in the early 1900s, took what Governor Chafee calls a real "shellacking...
...Continued Fuller: "What is this thing called brotherhood, indeed? Whatever has become of the 'do unto others' bit? All I can say, following accusations against me, is that 'My head is bloody but unbowed.' Then, as a quote for MY day let me turn to Zechariah 13:6 with this: I was wounded in the house of my friends...