Word: blau
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Emerging from jail (where he had served 21 days for leading the orthodox rioters), Rabbi Abraham Blau, foremost of the zealots, called for an end to violence and discord. The members of the anti-orthodox League Against Religious Compulsion also sheathed their resentment for the holy occasion...
...Sabbath drivers took the precaution of marking their cars with the Shield of David-the symbol of the Jewish Red Cross that marks doctors' cars. "Even with a Magen David one isn't safe," said one driver, "but at least one is safer." The orthodox leader, Rabbi Blau, however, deplored the violence. "If I had my way," he said, "every Jew who wishes to stand up against what he believes to be a desecration of his faith would demonstrate with his hands tied be hind his back to prove he came in peace...
...TIME subscription to a certain student for weeks. I finally wound up lending him the money to buy the subscription, and he left school without returning it. At long last, however, he did send a money order to cover the old loan." At Seton Hall University, Agent Irving Blau was stumped by a fellow student who refused to subscribe because TIME hadn't mentioned the remarkable Seton Hall basketball team. "However," says Blau, "the very next week, when there was a story on the team in TIME, I sold him a subscription." Pat DiNardo of New York University reports...
...release Mrs. Blau pointed the way to the wider use of this principle, by U.S. Communists and their friends. Since the day the Supreme Court decided that her refusal to answer was legal, a stream of Communists and people with Communist associations have faced down courts, grand juries and congressional committees with what Attorney General Herbert Brownell Jr. calls "those 14 magic words": "I refuse to answer upon the ground that it might tend to incriminate...
Last August, Mrs. Blau further dramatized the consequences of evading justice through the Fifth Amendment when she was arrested in California as a key accomplice of two U.S. Communist fugitives (TIME, Sept. 7). This was the last straw for Attorney General Brownell. He set his Department of Justice lawyers looking for a way to limit the abuse of the 14 magic words without damaging the solid legal right behind them. Last week Brownell announced the results of their study: a proposal to compel the testimony of witnesses by giving them immunity from federal prosecution...