Word: cite
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This time the legislators also jumped on the Item. Invoking a constitutional clause that not even the Kingfish himself had ever used, the Senate by a vote of 31 to 4 moved to cite Editor Clayton Fritchey of the Item for "disrespectful, disorderly or contemptuous" conduct toward the legislature. Maximum penalty: ten days in jail...
Three main criticisms have been raised: First, critics say that Mr. Burr's interests in Harvard were many and not primarily directed toward a new Varsity Club. The Administration remains unconvinced. Second, critics say the University has more pressing needs (the Administration no doubt agrees); they cite a theatre or skating rink as examples. Such criticism does not solve but only postpones the question...
...defeated two of these, while the others got into the line of Congressional and lobby fire. Opponents of the proposals claim that in some cases the President has modified the original Commission recommendations out of existence. Truman's plan No. 12 (to centralize authority in the NLRB) which they cite as an example, did not have the support of the Citizens Committee for the Hoover Reports. This voluble nation-wide organization, ex-officio publicity outlet for many members of the Commission, states that the Commission never proposed this change...
...international conferences, he explained-that sort of thing. It had been five or six years, he thought, since he had seen him last. As to whether Lattimore was a Communist, "to the best of my knowledge and belief, he was not," said Field. Next day Tydings moved to cite Browder and Field for contempt. Apart from the relevance of questions or constitutional guarantees against selfincrimination, the conduct of these witnesses, Tydings declared, "has 'been an affront to the dignity of the Senate...
...column goes on the cite Matthiessen's participation in the 1948 Progressive Party convention, and then devotes four paragraphs to listing his "Communist-front, or otherwise subversive" organizations...