Word: actes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Affirm that a state can use its police powers to prevent "sedition" against the Federal Government, thus erasing the 1956 opinion (TIME, April 16. 1956). written by Chief Justice Earl Warren. that freed Pennsylvania's top Communist Steve Nelson from prosecution under a state antisedition act...
...Amend the Smith Act so as to counteract the Supreme Court's narrow interpretation of the words "organize" and "advocate" that upset the basis of the Federal Government's prosecution of active Communists (TIME, July 1, 1957). Such amendment is necessary, said the recommendations, "so that this nation need not be forced to delay the invoking of the judicial process until such time as the damage has already been wrought...
Under the 1938 Agricultural Adjustment Act (first ruled constitutional in 1942 and confirmed by the Supreme Court in a Texas case last week), all farmers in commercial wheat states are bound by quotas if two-thirds of the wheat farmers agree to quotas. Yankus understood the law but opposed it because he 1) did not want the subsidies that go with quotas...
...decided to act. In his small studio he took out a sheet of his fine drawing paper, wrote: "I name Pierre Bonnard my sole legatee," and signed it with the name of Maria Boursin. But he was so inept a scoundrel that he dated the will on the day he wrote it-ten months after Marthe's death. When Bonnard himself died in 1947, the obvious fakery of the will threw everything into confusion. Bonnard's direct heirs found themselves challenged for a half share in the estate by four nieces of his wife Marthe. The works that...
...Hollywood to peddle his audience-research act to producers, Philadelphia-based Pollster Albert E. Sindlinger trotted out some tempting figures to convince the moviemen that they actually have something to sell. Feature films, said Sindlinger, will soon be classified by their expected box-office gross, and will fall into three groups: 1) under $2,000,000, 2) from $5,000,000 to $6,000,000, 3) from $9,000,000 up. Although the total number of movie theaters in the U.S. has dropped from 18,719 to 11,200 in the past two years, Sindlinger insisted that "blockbusters...