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Wrote a legal historian: "What Shakespeare has been to literature, what Bacon nas been to philosophy, what the translators of the Authorized Version of the Bible have been to religion, Coke has been to the public and private law of England." What goes for English law goes for American, too. Catherine Drinker Bowen, who wrote about lawyer-patriots before (Yankee from Olympus, featuring Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, and John Adams and the American Revolution), has produced an outstanding biography of Sir Edward Coke-it appeared briefly on the bestseller lists-in which greatness of personal achievement is framed...
Many Americans and Englishmen have an idea that liberty was born with Magna Carta and grew steadily to maturity through the centuries. The Lion and the Throne exposes this fallacy. When Coke (rhymes with hook) was born (1552), the purpose of three centuries of English monarchs had been to ignore Magna Carta...
...rests upon fundamental principles of the power of the Congress and the limitations upon that power." The Chief Justice therefore delivered a professorial lecture on parliamentary history, ranging from the 17th century British inquiry involving Popish Plotmonger Titus Oates* ("the infamous rogue") through the historic lawgiving of Sir Edward Coke, James I's Lord Chief Justice, to the U.S. Senate investigation in 1859 of John Brown's seizure of the Harper's Ferry arsenal...
Sovereignty is not a word often used in connection with a Soviet citizen. But First Party Secretary Nikita Khrushchev used it scornfully last week to describe the action of "Comrade Maximov," chairman of the Zhdanov Coke-Chemical works, who had built an 8½-ft.-high slag-block wall 3,000 ft. long (cost: $50,000) to "defend his sovereignty" against the rival Azvostal factory. Although Russia's vast socialized industry works for one boss-the State-competition between ministries, divisions and plant managements is as intense and as predatory as anything to be found in the worst Marxist...
...built in Texas for $23 million or on the East Coast for $24 million v. $47 million for a blast furnace with the same capacity. Squires estimated that fuel costs in gas-rich Texas would be a mere $4 a ton v. $15 there for imported coke. On the East Coast, he said, fuel costs of direct reduction would be closer to those of a blast furnace ($6 v. $10), but would still give direct reduction a considerable advantage...