Word: clearing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...soldier habit, had already shaved and breakfasted. Coming down stairs later, Harry Truman invited his overnight guest along on his regular morning stroll. Long before the high priests of protocol were up to bother them, the two Presidents ambled leisurely in the capital's cool, clear morning...
...Clear Provision. By week's end, be-leagured David Lilienthal had a public change of heart. Hereafter, he declared, the AEC would demand an anti-Communist affidavit from all applicants. The private National Research Council (which had been picking the fellows for AEC) agreed to this procedure. Said Lilienthal, completing his change of front: "I have no question at all that we should not provide public funds for anyone who advocates the overthrow of this government by force or violence . . . whether [the work] is secret or non-secret." Just to make doubly sure, O'Mahoney announced he would...
...commented that he supposed Dennis' protests stemmed from his unfamiliarity with the law. But after an hour-during which he was once forced to leave the bench to quiet the uproar-Medina consented to listen to a motion for acquittal based on whether the Justice Holmes doctrine of "clear and present danger" applied to the case (see above). Next day Defense Attorney Abraham J. Isserman argued, in effect, that the defendants were being denied "the right to engage in political activity...
Said Medina: "If [the defendants] merely got together ... to urge . . . people by peaceful means to change the laws so as to bring about a socialistic society I would say, yes, that was something it was clearly their right to do ... You are knocking down a man of straw here . . . It did not seem to me that all these witnesses were talking about peaceful things." Isserman contended that a "clear and present danger" from their activities would have to be shown. Did he mean, asked Judge Medina, that the Government had to prove a clear and present danger of the immediate...
...indeed best serve its high purpose when it induces a condition of unrest, creates dissatisfaction with conditions as they are, or even stirs people to anger." Freedom of speech, they said, could not be denied unless it created, in the late Oliver Wendell Holmes's classic phrase, "a clear and present danger" to public safety and welfare...