Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...burden of proof would be on the Government. The defendant would have the usual rights to cross-examine, present witnesses and appeal. If the injunction were issued and the white man ignored it by, say, continuing to threaten the Negro, he could be held in civil contempt. At his contempt hearing he would not have the right to a jury trial-a key point in the program. If found guilty, he could be jailed until he purged himself of the contempt by agreeing to obey the injunction...
This is not to advocate the 25% limit for snob-appeal, just think of what it will do for American literature when it creates a vast new mythology of rustics, beggars, and the like. There should be a sensible increase in suffering along with poverty, so that artists will be blossoming in the newly created misery...
Wyoming started it all, back in 1939. By last week, with Idaho and Tennessee lately joining the parade, 32 state legislatures had followed Wyoming in an extraordinary appeal: Congress should set about amending the Constitution to limit the federal income-tax bite. Many of the "memorials" propose a specific federal ceiling: 25% of an individual's taxable income. Existing constitutional ceiling: none. Maximum under present...
...Vain Appeal. Labor's doubts and fears were shared last week by troubled men all the way from Hamburg to Hiroshima. Unlike George Brown, the Japanese, who live relatively close (4,700 miles) to Britain's Christmas Island testing area were entirely confident that they knew what the British were doing. Declaring that the test would pollute Japan's Pacific fishing grounds, the Japan Council Against Atom and Hydrogen Bombs noisily formulated plans to send a "peace fleet" into the 750,000 square miles of ocean which Britain has declared off limits to shipping between March...
...photographers had scrambled for months to provide Ike with a second-term portrait, Jim Hagerty announced the new winner: George Tames. The Timesman's entry, a third unsmiling pre-broadcast shot, was taken in February when the President was about to go on the air with his annual appeal for the American Red Cross...