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...about any discernible adverse effects on the nation's security." Rather, he explained, if the charge is disloyalty in a nonsensitive position, there are orderly procedures for dismissal other than the 1950 act. This reasoning was concurred in by Chief Justice Warren and Justices Douglas, Black, Frankfurter and Burton. It was applauded by such advocates as the American Civil Liberties Union and Washington's ex-Senator Harry Cain, who, as a member of the Subversive Activities Control Board, has become a latter-day civil libertarian. Cain called the Cole case decision "the best American good sense I have...
Warren, 65, Douglas, 57, and Black, 70, are the Supreme Court's liberal leaders. On the opposite side in case after case are egg-bald Stanley Reed, 71, dour Sherman Minton, 65, and imperturbable Harold Burton, 67, the court's conservatives. The swing men are Felix Frankfurter, 73, Tom Clark, 56, and John Marshall Harlan, 57 Frankfurter, the perky sparrow, brilliant but baffling, is still disliked by many conservatives who originally fought his appointment, and is now distrusted by many liberals who feel he has betrayed them. As a general rule, he would rather decide a case...
...when it passed the 1940 Smith Act and succeeding anti-subversive statutes. State laws are "in no sense uniform," and their enforcement could present "serious danger of conflict" with federal antisubversion operations. In the strongest dissent that Earl Warren has ever faced, Justices Stanley Reed, Sherman Minton and Harold Burton argued that "in the responsibility of national and local governments to protect themselves against sedition, there is no 'dominant interest' . . . Congress has not, in any of its statutes relating to sedition, specifically barred the exercise of state power to punish the same acts under state...
...present, plans for the selection of the three plays are also in the formative stage. Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy, Arthur Kennedy, Judith Anderson, Mildred Dunnock, John Kerr, Siobban McKenna, and Richard Burton have expressed interest in the series. However, all arrangements are presently liquid, and no final committments will be made for several weeks...
...Burton A. Schwalb '57 first proposed his plan at the Student Council meeting Monday. At that time, however, the Council tabled the measure until its next meeting...