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... COURT • XIII . 93 100 · XV . XVI . MADISON SQUARE GARDEN • AMBASSADOR TO THE COURT OF ST . JAMES XIV . BROKE " FOOL FRIENDS " AND A LETTER 107 121 • · 127 . 137 PART II CHAPTER PAGE I. A WAR DOCUMENT 143 II.
... COURT • XIII . 93 100 · XV . XVI . MADISON SQUARE GARDEN • AMBASSADOR TO THE COURT OF ST . JAMES XIV . BROKE " FOOL FRIENDS " AND A LETTER 107 121 • · 127 . 137 PART II CHAPTER PAGE I. A WAR DOCUMENT 143 II.
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... court , punched one of the elder Davis ' legal antagonists on the point of the jaw . In each instance the attack was in retaliation for a slighting reference to the parent . Politically Davis classifies himself as a Jeffersonian : " I ...
... court , punched one of the elder Davis ' legal antagonists on the point of the jaw . In each instance the attack was in retaliation for a slighting reference to the parent . Politically Davis classifies himself as a Jeffersonian : " I ...
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... Court twice , first by Wilson and again under Harding . The late Chief Justice Edward Douglass White once called at the White House to express unofficially to President Wil- son his own hope and that of associates on the bench that ...
... Court twice , first by Wilson and again under Harding . The late Chief Justice Edward Douglass White once called at the White House to express unofficially to President Wil- son his own hope and that of associates on the bench that ...
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... Court , Davis appeared for the Government on a certain Tuesday . On the follow- ing Monday the Court issued an order for a rehearing . John J. Fitzgerald of New York , counsel for the de- fense and a noted wit , gathered several other ...
... Court , Davis appeared for the Government on a certain Tuesday . On the follow- ing Monday the Court issued an order for a rehearing . John J. Fitzgerald of New York , counsel for the de- fense and a noted wit , gathered several other ...
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... court room was crowded . To make sure of obtaining convictions , the United States District Attorney , Flick by name , had sum- moned scores of witnesses . One after another they took the stand to identify the accused men and describe ...
... court room was crowded . To make sure of obtaining convictions , the United States District Attorney , Flick by name , had sum- moned scores of witnesses . One after another they took the stand to identify the accused men and describe ...
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Page 252 - A treaty entering the Senate is like a bull going into the arena: no one can say just how or when the final blow will fall — but one thing is certain — it will never leave the arena alive.
Page 166 - Constitution in order to form a more perfect union, to establish justice, and to secure the blessings of liberty to themselves and their posterity, intended to empower the Federal Government to exclude slavery from the Territories.
Page 256 - Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom, and a great empire and little minds go ill together. If we are conscious of our...
Page 155 - These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it now deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives everything its value.
Page 155 - THESE are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.
Page 242 - A nation yet, the rulers and the ruled — Some sense of duty, something of a faith, Some reverence for the laws ourselves have made, Some patient force to change them when we will, Some civic manhood firm against the crowd — But yonder, whiff!
Page 284 - that all men ... are endowed by their creator with [inalienable rights to] life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness [and] that to secure these rights governments are instituted among men.