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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...breakdown in the family system. "Juvenal saw this happening," says Zimmerman, "when he wrote that the object of Roman men of the time was to make their neighbors' bedsprings creak." Seeing similar signs of breakdown today, the professor feels that the larger problem can be attacked best through an attempt to shore up the foundation of the family system upon which our society is based. Specifically, he proposes a national standardization of family law, in place of our present 48-state hodge-podge, and the setting up of a Supreme Court devoted to family law. "The establishment," he points...
...Authority would also maintain a lobby in Washington. The first and most important job of the lobby would be to get outmoded copyright laws modernized. It would also attempt to keep outrages such as the New York court ruling from botching up the writers' works. Cain's ebullience overboiled when he thought of financing these functions by levies on publishers and theatrical and movie producers, and of eventually taxing them enough to provide a minimum yearly salary for writers. But the Screen Writers' Guild, an organization whose "communist leadership" is mythical, recently decided to rewrite the proposal "in better form...
...refine the technique of voting--of prime importance in any serious attempt at democratic procedure--would have been a simple task for a Council so inclined. Providing ballots, for example, for the seventy Varsity Club diners required little more than foresight. There were none at the Club Thursday. Simple planning would have made it possible for inter-House guests to vote. And to eliminate the advantages gained by certain candidates through alphabetical position on the ballot, the Council would merely have had to restore the old device, comprehensible to even the novice printer, of dividing top-of-the-list honors...
Postscript. This fanciful turnabout was answered last week by U.S. Chief Prosecutor Robert Jackson, in an address before the University of Buffalo. Jackson declared that the trial's fundamental justification lay in its attempt to outlaw aggressive war and to destroy "the old theory that international law bears on states and not on statesmen [shielded by] 'sovereignty.' . . ." He reasserted his belief that this interpretation was actually implicit in existing international law, which the Allies had merely strengthened. Said he: "At all events, whether they be regarded as an innovation or a codification, those principles are law today...
...Congress' major attempt to curb labor came to nothing when the President promptly vetoed the controversial...