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...government is but to carp with the law as it has stood since the founding of the Republic. To state that it is the duty of the citizen to appear before congressional committees is only to state that it has always been the right of the government to compel him to do so. This is old stuff, beyond cavil, and common knowledge to anyone concerned with the workings of American government...
Said Supreme Court Chief Justice W. H. (for William Henry) Duckworth: the "records justify every conclusion stated [in the paper's series] . . . [There are] no grounds whatever to sustain a conviction for contempt . . . The judge was utterly without power to require or compel publication . . . without pay [of the proof] he requested them to publish . . . If a worthy judge may employ contempt-of-court process to silence unjust criticism . . . then this same rule would enable an unworthy judge to silence the press in just criticism...
...Wind. The plan does work. Since 1894, when the company started on $2,600 capital, it has never failed to pay off an investor. It has not only weathered wars, depressions and bank runs, but some ill winds which blew it good. In 1943, when SEC brought suit to compel I.D.S. to follow a policy of "full dis- osure," stressing objections as well as advantages to its savings plans, I.D.S. discovered that underselling actually boosted its business. After hearing all the disadvantages (low interest, losses on early cash-ins, etc.), cautious investors felt that candid I.D.S. was a company they...
...World War II, the big movie companies made 16-mm. prints of feature movies to show in Army camps and hospitals all over the world. Last week Hollywood was brooding on the adage: a good deed never goes unpunished. The U.S. Department of Justice filed an antitrust suit to compel twelve major film companies to sell their 16-mm. prints to television...
Citation: "Concerned de rerum atque homini natura, you compel attention to the dynamic of the destructible atom on the one hand, and of the indestructible human spirit on the other. Owing allegiance to the truth . . . you have dedicated yourself as citizen, with almost Calvinistic zeal, to testing the American-and revolutionary-proposition that all men are created equal...