Word: milligan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...expected to represent radio views of their respective groups. Tie votes are broken by deliberation of a committee which includes American Legion Auxiliary Radio Committee Chairman Mrs. William H. Corwith, Child Study Association's Miss Josette Frank, former W. N. R. C. Chairman Mrs. Harold Vincent Milligan and W. N. R. C. Chairman Mme Yolanda Mero-Irion...
...Clark went to the Senate without his help and Boss Pendergast has since had to sign a working agreement to claim patronage only in the western half of the State. The truce has lately been strained, to the dis pleasure of Tom Pendergast. First strain came when young Maurice Milligan, whose Brother Jacob was defeated by Pendergast's Harry Truman for the Senate, was appointed U. S. Attorney for the western district of Missouri with Senator Clark's help and began the campaign to clean up the city's voting which culminated in the celebrated indictment...
...accident that the Record hogs Philadelphia's death notice business. Most familiar newspaper figure to the city's undertakers is the Record's redhaired, beak-nosed Alexander Milligan Burns, who has made death notice selling his life work, has written 125,000 "finales" in 37 years. Mr. Burns helped initiate a novel co-operative deal by which a death notice placed in one Philadelphia paper is automatically placed in the other three, about half of the average $10 charge going to the paper which secures the original insertion. "Death Notice" Burns gets 80% of all original insertions...
...player who finished school easily and received a degree. Of the original four Hal Kempians, Saxie Dowell and Ben Williams are Tar Heel Delta Tau Deltas. Clayton Cash is an Illinois Delt; Ralph Hallenbeck, Princeton '35, is a Triangle Club man. Dorsey Forrest is a Northwestern Zeta Psi, Bruce Milligan is from Boston U, Phil Fent is a Cornhusker (Nebraska). Needless to say, all, including Hal, usually go bare-headed and garterless...
Although the United States Constitution contains no such express limitation on martial law, the general provision, "No person shall . . . be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law", was held by the United States Supreme Court in the great case of Ex-Parto Milligan to make it, impossible for an earlier Governor of Rhode Island (General Burnside) to establish martial law, even during the Civil War, in a region (Indiana) which was not invaded by the enemy but completely free from disorder and in which the civil courts were quietly sitting...