Word: felon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Judge Pye struck his blow in connection with the trial (for armed robbery) of a notorious Georgia felon named Harold James Meriwether. While the jury trial was in progress, both papers ran stories that dipped into Meriwether's extensive criminal past. This long-accepted U.S. newspaper practice was unacceptable to Judge Pye. He called the stories to the attention of Defense Counsel Frank Hester: "Have you read these accounts...
...Real & Unreal. The story of the Wanderer (Lagerkvist names no names) begins with his lack of, charity toward a felon who is being led to a place of execution. The felon, staggering under his cross, says: "You shall suffer greater punishment than mine; you shall never die." Later, whispers reach the Wanderer that the cross-bearer was God's son, and he soon finds out the terror of being immortal on earth: where there is no death, there is no love, at least not in the human sense. The Wanderer leaves his city.-and his age-to take...
...what was Goya saying? Malraux keeps lunging at the point. In general he argues that the master's art was anti-idealistic, un-Christian and interrogatory: "If Christ is not the very meaning of the world, then the body of an executed felon by the roadside is more significant than a crucifix . . . Christian art was an answer; his art is a question. The Mocking is a pathetic subject but not a ridiculous one because Jesus has chosen to be mocked. The garrotted victims of the Inquisition have not chosen the pointed cap that shakes in their agony; the laughter...
Though it varies from one newspaper to another, the ban on racial identification is usually lifted only when the story 1) is favorable. 2) involves a wanted felon, or 3) would make no sense otherwise, e.g., the report of a racial clash. The result: Negroes are seldom identified when they figure in crime stories...
...have no politics," Washington Lawyer F. (for Florence) Joseph Donohue protested piously in 1951. "As a resident of the District of Columbia, I am like an alien enemy, a convicted felon or an adjudicated lunatic in that I have no vote." Last week, chumming with reporters in his new role as national campaign manager for Estes Kefauver, "Jiggs" Donohue had plenty of politics, but few worries about convictions or adjudications. Said he of his hard-campaigning candidate: "Estes is doing a really good job out there. I told him when he went...