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...cherish them or how mischievous I may deem their disregard." During his early years on the Supreme Court, Frankfurter's judicial restraint operated as a liberal doctrine, opposing the court conservatives, who used strict constitutional interpretations as weapons against New Deal legislation. But under Chief Justice Earl Warren, the court has leaned to sweepingly liberal interpretations of the Constitution's civil liberties clauses, and judicial restraint has acted as a conservative brake. Under Warren, Frankfurter repeatedly dissented from majority opinions upsetting federal or state laws. His last major dissent was from the majority opinion that brought apportionment...
...Known as "fair Evelyn" (pronounced Evelyn), Byrd's daughter was a celebrated beauty (see cut). As a young girl she went to live in England where she fell in love with the Earl of Peterborough. Her father forbade the match because the earl was Catholic. A broken-hearted Evelyn returned to Virginia where, she died at the age of 29. The name Evelyn is missing in the sixth generation (circa 1830), but has shown up in every other, impartially divided between male Byrds and lady Byrds...
...morning when the jangling phone awakened a politician in Louisiana. "Hey," said a familiar voice, "time to get up−daylight is acomin'!" "Lordamighty!" cried the politician. "It's Earl Long−returned from the dead...
...wasn't−but it sounded close enough. The caller was Attorney Gillis Long, 39, who is a cousin-type of Huey and of Huey's brother Earl* and "double-third cousin" of Huey's son, Senator Russell Long. Last week Gillis joined the family's highly successful political firm. He won the Democratic primary nomination in Louisiana's Eighth District, unseating Congressman Harold McSween, while Cousin Russell easily got renominated for a third term in the U.S. Senate...
...today not by the attacks of overzealous district attorneys and congressional committee chairmen but by public apathy. In a showdown, Williams fears that the majority of the American people would gladly trade the Bill of Rights for "a guarantee of total economic security until death." Noting that Chief Justice Earl Warren once said he doubted that the Bill of Rights would now be passed by Congress, Williams goes him one better: "I am doubtful that it would ever get out of committee...