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On the massive desk of old President Paul von Beneckendorff und von Hinden burg last week lay a letter heavy with Dutch seals. It contained a dignified appeal from Wilhelmina Helena Pauline Maria, Queen of The Netherlands, Princess of Orange-Nassau and Duchess of Mecklenburg. Her Majesty asked only what...
Felix Frankfurter's capacity for dealing with men is the tool which has enabled him to exert the extraordinary influence with which he is rightly credited. Take, for example, his influence on the development of public law in the United States. His work has been done, not through the medium...
Bespectacled Chartmaker Pitirim Alexandrovich Sorokin was born in Russia 45 years ago. His studies of violence have not been entirely academic. He was imprisoned thrice under the Tsarist regime for radicalism, thrice by the Bolshevists for conservatism. Sentenced to death, he was awaiting execution when the Communist Government relented, chased...
Now is an excellent time to rename the crime of lawless execution, for who better deserves to have his name attached to that crime than Governor James Rolph? He defended the crime; he condoned it. He even praised it. ...
"The experiment is scarcely begun and yet in the few months of its execution it has produced 25% of the results expected of it. ...