Word: maryland
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...million cut in the Pentagon's "emergency fund," an amendment that was opposed by California Conservative George Murphy, who called it "comfortable money" for the military. Answered Maryland Democrat Joseph Tydings: "I would call it luxury money...
...event was the first National Hollerin' Contest that anybody knows about, and contestants came from as far away as Louisiana and Maryland to pay tribute to a minor art form that dates back to way before the days of the telephone. Hollerin' is the way folks used to communicate when they lived a mile or more apart. It requires a lot of lung power, and just plain shouting will not do. Traditionally, each farmer had a set of hollers that were recognizable as his own by their beat, melody and style of delivery. Some hollers were based...
...Maryland case, the court declared by a 6-to-2 vote that the Fifth Amendment guarantee against double jeopardy applies to the states. In so ruling, the court upheld John Dalmer Benton, who had been convicted of burglary and acquitted of a larceny charge at one trial. Benton had sought a new trial on the burglary charge, but instead was retried-and convicted-on both charges. > In a California decision, the I. most important of the three, the court reversed the conviction of a numismatist named Ted Chimel, who was sentenced to prison in 1966 for stealing rare coins. When...
...verify the convicts' contentions, three judges volunteered to be admitted as prisoners for a day at the nearby Maryland House of Correction. As extra guards stood by unobtrusively, they were brought through the gates in handcuffs, stripped, showered, and supplied with blue prison shirts and brown pants. Then they were clapped into small cells in the cacophonous main cellblock. Prison officials laid on the full treatment, later declared one white-haired judge to be suffering from "suicidal tendencies" and sent him to an isolation cell. There he was protectively stripped of his belt, shoes, glasses...
...judges were outraged, as were other conference participants who similarly masqueraded in the Maryland pris on system. Echoing what a lonely band of prison reformers has argued for years, one judge complained, "Calling this place a house of correction is damn nonsense." Added another: "People in institutions are living in a jungle. If something is not done, we are going to be living in a jungle on the outside...