Word: charter
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...identify any members of the Communist Party. Retorted Slochower: "I am sure Joe Stalin is a member." Slochower invoked the Fifth Amendment three times in refusing to say whether he had been a Communist in 1940 and 1941. He was fired by Brooklyn College under a New York City charter provision that requires automatic dismissal for all city employees who plead the Fifth Amendment. Last week, in a 5-4 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court declared Slochower's dismissal invalid...
Clark's sweeping language was interpreted by many as a far-ranging decree on the touchy Fifth Amendment issue. Actually, the decision had narrow application. It dealt only with the New York City charter provision-and only to the extent that Slochower had not been given a hearing and had, therefore, been denied due process of law. The opinion (Chief Justice Earl Warren and Justices Hugo Black, Felix Frankfurter and William O. Douglas concurring) was, in fact, careful to point out: "This is not to say that Slochower has a constitutional right to be an associate professor of German...
...Depression and under the New Deal, have political reflexes that respond favorably to Democrats, unfavorably to Republicans. They strengthen their reflexes daily by reading the Post, where their reactions are shared by most of the Post's top brass, including Managing Editor Al Friendly, 44, an active charter member of Americans for Democratic Action, and Publisher Graham himself...
National constitutions, like spiritual convictions, should well from within. Whatever else Japan's first democratic constitution may be-it was hailed at the time as a model charter of human rights-it is not Japanese. Written in English at the command of General Douglas MacArthur, translated into Japanese and imposed upon a defeated nation soon after its surrender, it has long chafed Japanese pride. "Constitution Day," says Education Minister Ichiro Kiyose, "is not a day of glory but one of national humiliation." Kiyose was defense counsel at the war crimes trial of Militarist Prime Minister Hideki Tojo...
Under the CAB's rules, the organization seeking to charter a plane must have a common denominator among its members...