Word: acted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Youth Leader Mike Zagarell, 23, for President and Vice President of the U.S. The fact that Zagarell is twelve years too young to meet the legal requirements for Vice President was the least of Donovan's objections. Mrs. Mitchell and Zagarell are Communists, and the Communist Control Act of 1954 says that their party "should be outlawed" as the agent of a foreign power. Under the law, said the Minnesota Attorney General, the Communists do not have "the rights, privileges and immunities" of ordinary political parties...
...repressive of the most fundamental freedoms of speech and assembly"; it attempts to punish by legislation without giving its intended victims "a modicum of procedures to defend themselves." In an amicus curiae memorandum, the Justice Department indirectly supported the A.C.L.U.'s case. It said that the Communist Control Act barred the party but not individual Communists from the ballot...
...three federal judges who heard the case in St. Paul concluded that the Control Act "jabs at the very core of our traditional freedoms." The third judge did not go quite that far. But in a concurring opinion, he said that since so little time was left before the election, there would be less harm in letting the Communists appear on the ballot now than in denying them a right they might win in the future. The court's decision confirms a growing view among constitutional lawyers that the Communist Party is indeed a legal political organization...
...work before he could be a member; the employers said he could not work without a union card. Last month, in a direct attack on color barriers in trade unions, a U.S. district court found that the local had violated not only the 1964 Civil Rights Act but also a 102-year-old post-Civil War statute that was only recently invoked by the Supreme Court to bar bias in housing. Following up his 86-page decision, Judge Timothy S. Hogan: 1) ordered Dobbins' admission to the union, 2) temporarily suspended union hiring-hall practices, by which jobs...
...Andrew Johnson painted while he was in office. It was the work of the itinerant Swiss artist Frank Buchser. The scouts brought it back, together with the Buchser portraits of California's Sutter and Poet William Cullen Bryant, who looks as though he was caught in the very act of writing "To a Waterfowl...