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Word: acte (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Trop, who escaped from an Army stockade in French Morocco in 1944, went over the hill, was picked up the next day, convicted of desertion and sent out with a dishonorable discharge. In 1952 he applied for a passport and was refused on grounds, clearly supported by a congressional act, that his desertion had cost him his citizenship. Chief Justice Earl Warren wrote the majority opinion, with Justices Hugo Black, William O. Douglas and Charles Evans Whittaker joining. William Brennan concurred. Felix Frankfurter, Harold Burton, Tom Clark and John Marshall Harlan dissented. The upshot: 5 to 4 in favor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SUPREME COURT: The Judges or the Congress? | 4/14/1958 | See Source »

...dissent, Justice Frankfurter said that to uphold the expatriation act "is to respect the actions of the two branches of our Government directly responsive to the will of the people and empowered under the Constitution to determine the wisdom of legislation. The awesome power of this court to invalidate such legislation, because in practice it is bounded only by our own prudence in discerning the limits of the court's constitutional function, must be exercised with the utmost restraint." He took special exception to Earl Warren's citing of the 81 times the Supreme Court has declared acts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SUPREME COURT: The Judges or the Congress? | 4/14/1958 | See Source »

...Anomaly in the Law." The case considered by the Supreme Court last week was that of top U.S. Communists Gilbert Green and Henry Winston, convicted under the Smith Act in 1949, each fined $10,-ooo and sentenced to five years in prison. After sentencing, both jumped bail and hid out for nearly five years. When they gave themselves up in 1956, they were sentenced to three more years apiece for their contempt of court in jumping bond. The criminal-contempt convictions were upheld last week by the Supreme Court-but only by a 5-to-4 vote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Close Call on Contempt | 4/14/1958 | See Source »

...doesn't matter anyhow because I have just been fired." With that, Judy vanished to her dressing room. Fired or not, both Judy and irate Ben Maksik had had enough. Claiming that he had advanced her $40,000 (not so, said Judy) for her scheduled 3½ week act at $25,000 a week, Maksik argued that his star had reneged on her contract, rushed in Singer Denise Darcel as a replacement. Holed up at a Park Avenue hotel, Judy admittedly broke, was seen dancing with Husband-Manager Sid Luft, whom she is suing for divorce, at expensive Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Apr. 14, 1958 | 4/14/1958 | See Source »

...Halim El-Dabh, was a more impressive work and far more complex. Both its power and its tortuous complexities derived from Choreographer Graham's technique of unfolding the story as a memory of past events sounding shrilly in the echo chamber of Clytemnestra's mind. In four acts, Graham introduced Clytemnestra in Hades, shifted back in time to Clytemnestra's vision of the fate that had led to her murder by her son Orestes, then shifted again to Hades and to the redemption of the mind that had spun out the tale of its own deception. Thus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Martha's Return | 4/14/1958 | See Source »

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