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Legal Mind. In California's Alcatraz, Convict Earl W. Taylor, who had filed some 80 writs trying to get out of prison, tried a new tack, filed a writ asking to be left...
This week the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on the case. To a man, the nine Justices were appalled by the length of the law's arm in Long Beach. Chief Justice Earl Warren and Associate Justice Robert Jackson thought the whole record of the case should be sent to the Department of Justice, to determine whether the police had violated Irvine's civil rights. Wrote Associate Justice Felix Frankfurter, with Associate Justice Harold Burton agreeing: "We have here . . . powerful and offensive control over Irvine's life . . . The police devised means to hear every word that was said...
...Governor: Richard P. (for Perrin) Graves, 47, a follower of Republican Governor Earl Warren and a registered Republican as recently as Dec. 14. Graves voted for Adlai Stevenson and four times for Franklin Roosevelt. He has switched his party registration four times: he was a Republican from 1928 to 1932, and from 1944 to 1953, a Democrat from 1932 to 1936, and an independent from...
...last speaker was Chief Justice Earl Warren, who was raised a Methodist, now frequently attends Baptist services with his wife. "I believe no one can read the history of our country," he said, "without realizing that the Good Book and the spirit of the Saviour have from the beginning been our guiding geniuses . . . Whether we look to the first Charter of Virginia . . . or to the Charter of New England . . . or to the Charter of Massachusetts Bay . . . or to the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut . . . the same objective is present: a Christian land governed by Christian principles...
...plan faces these facts," said Earl Alexander, "First, there never can be absolute military security...