Word: compelled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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That is why there is so much merit in the plan to compel testimony before Congressional committees in return for immunity from prosecution. A bill of this type has passed the Senate, is before the House, and has been endorsed by the Attorney-General of the United States. Executive agencies such as the National Labor Relations Board and Interstate Commission have used the principles of this bill since the passage of the Compulsory Testimony Act in 1893. Such a law can be so worded as to end the practices that have brought the Fifth Amendment into discredit without forcing self...
...Tomorrow's editorial will sketch an immunity bill which could compel testimony without violating Constitutional liberties...
...This was the last straw for Attorney General Brownell. He set his Department of Justice lawyers looking for a way to limit the abuse of the 14 magic words without damaging the solid legal right behind them. Last week Brownell announced the results of their study: a proposal to compel the testimony of witnesses by giving them immunity from federal prosecution...
Bonner had promised to enforce the compulsory-education law and compel the unruly Sons to send their children to school. As opening day approached, indications grew that the Sons were getting set to defy Bonner and the "manmade" school law. Railway dynamitings and house-burnings, two favorite methods of Freedomite protest, broke out around their settlements in the mountainous Kootenay district. Several hundred Freedomites left their homes and set up a tent village at Perry Siding. None of their children showed up for classes when school opened. Instead, the parents stripped for their demonstration...
...highways did not have to be built to carry the heavy truck, but only to ... carry the automobile, we could build tens of thousands more miles of improved highways than we are building today with the same amount of money. The truckers, however, strenuously oppose any efforts that will compel them to pay their fair share of modern road costs . . . There are very strong and well-entrenched pressure groups which are going to fight...