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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Minority Opinion. In Phoenix, Ariz., while covering a Chamber of Commerce meeting devoted to pooh-poohing the city's sweltering summers, Gazette Reporter Lloyd Clark collapsed of heat exhaustion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 13, 1959 | 7/13/1959 | See Source »

...lone dissenter was Justice Tom Clark, who disagreed so strenuously that Justice John Marshall Harlan chided him for succumbing to the "temptations of colorful characterization." Argued Clark, from the perspective of a longtime (1945-49) U.S. Attorney General: "Surely one does not have a constitutional right to have access to the Government's military secrets . . . No one reading the [majority] opinion will doubt that ... its broad sweep speaks in prophecy. Let us hope the winds may change. If they do not, the present temporary debacle will turn into a rout of our internal security...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SUPREME COURT: Security v. Security | 7/13/1959 | See Source »

...Change? The people, said Clark, had given the Democrats "a mandate to write a Democratic program ... I suggest it is our responsibility to write that kind of program and send it to the President today, next week, and every week until this Congress adjourns, and to come back and do it all over again at the second session." To capture the White House in 1960, Clark said, the party would need to write a Democratic record. "If the people cannot detect any difference between the parties, why should they wish to make a change...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: The Big Target | 7/6/1959 | See Source »

...disputed internal-security decisions laid down by the Supreme Court in 1956-57, none stirred up more wrath than the Jencks case ruling. Its gist: a defendant in a federal criminal case had a legal right to examine pretrial statements of Government witnesses. Warned Justice Tom Clark in his dissent: the decision granted criminals a "Roman holiday for rummaging" in FBI files...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SUPREME COURT: Roman Holiday's End | 7/6/1959 | See Source »

...TIME, June 22), the Supreme Court called off the holiday by rejecting seven appeals based on the Jencks ruling. Written by Justice Felix Frankfurter (joined by Tom Clark, John Marshall Harlan, Charles Evans Whittaker, Potter Stewart), the main opinion in the seven cases upheld a statute passed by Congress in 1957 to narrow the Jencks decision. Its basic rules...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SUPREME COURT: Roman Holiday's End | 7/6/1959 | See Source »

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