Word: berkman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Paul S. Berger; Richard L. Berkman; Alan D. Bersin; Todd W. Boli; James Brook; Edward M. Brown; John A. Buehrens; Peter H. Calkins; Alan R. Cohen; Terence R. Considine; Frank R. Curtis; Howard M. Cutler; Christopher C. Dahl; Edward A. Davenport; Thomas L. Dublin, Jacob S. Egan...
Joining the case as a friend of the court, Bernard A. Berkman of the American Civil Liberties Union argued that Trial Judge Edward Blythin should have removed the trial to a "remote county" of Ohio. In view of the "massive publicity," Berkman went on to say, the defendant had a right to choose his own place of trial. In that circumstance, said Chief Justice Earl Warren, "where we have so many news media-television, radio, newspapers-no trial would be had in a big city if the defendant wanted to go some place else...
Pinning Responsibility. Both Bailey and Berkman were careful not to put the court in the position of having to choose between the First Amendment, which guarantees a free press, and the Sixth Amendment, which guarantees a fair trial. Asked whether he was pinning responsibility for the press coverage on the newspapers or on the court officials, Berkman did not hesitate to opt for the court officials. "There is nothing in what we propose," he said, "which would in any way inhibit the freedom of the press." Berkman suggested that the court should set some ground rules for trial coverage...
...Thumbs. The town of Homestead settled into a state of siege regularly interrupted by violence. An anarchist from New York, Alexander Berkman, inflamed by newspaper accounts of the strike, came to Homestead determined to assassinate Frick; one day he managed to pump two shots into the mighty magnate, but Frick survived. Eight thousand Pennsylvania National Guardsmen bivouacked in the town under a general who was sympathetic to management; for expressing an anti-Frick sentiment, one soldier was strung up by the thumbs. When Frick imported scab labor under armed guard, the strikers poisoned their food; at least three died...
...Dorothy Worth, of Newton, will train at the Harvard School of Public Health with a special emphasis on maternal and child care. Miss Sylvia Berkman, of Wellesley, will complete a second volume of short stories. Mrs. Merio Goldman, of Wellesley, will work on a book examining the role of intellectuals in the Chinese Communist Party. Mrs. Joan Santas, of Wellesley Hills, will study James Brance. Cabell's novels and their relationship to Southern society...