Word: clears
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...advocate the violent overthrow of the U.S. Government, or to conspire to commit such acts. There was no question of an overt act of violence; no revolution had actually been attempted. Had the activities of the eleven then constituted for the U.S. what Justice Holmes once characterized as "clear and present danger"? The defendants had merely plotted and planned, taught and preached. No matter how unpopular such activities, wasn't the law that forbade them an infringement of the First Amendment, an abridgment of the right of free speech...
...Whether clear and present danger could be shown or not, the fact of the matter was that the Reds intended to bring their plans to fruition "at the earliest time that circumstances would permit...
...Matter of Law. He made it clear that despite the outcries of leftists, the Communist Party, as a political party, was not on trial. Only the eleven were on trial-eleven individuals charged with criminal conspiracy. The jury was not to try to decide whether the whole U.S. Communist Party was a criminal conspiracy; that question was not before...
...Republicans on the committee voted against the report. Complained Iowa's Republican Senator Bourke Hickenlooper, who had made the original charge: "A clear case of whitewash...
...thing seemed already clear at the end of Denfeld's testimony: either he or Louis Johnson would have to step aside; after Denfeld's testimony they could no longer work together. Said one high-ranking general: "Personal relationships have gone to hell. I don't see how they can ever be repaired within the Joint Chiefs of Staff." Whatever else was decided, changes would have to be made in the U.S. defense command...