Word: constitutionalized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The Object: Delay. On Capitol Hill the outcry was immediate and immense. A flood of bills and resolutions dropped into the hoppers. All were designed to blunt the Supreme Court's ruling, and some proposed smothering the ruling altogether by amending the U.S. Constitution to deny the federal courts...
There have been many reminders of the kind of reporting the courts condemn. Most recently it was the case of Ohio Osteopath Dr. Sam Sheppard. In freeing him, a federal judge blasted Cleveland newspapers for "trying" Sheppard ("a mockery of justice") with such editorial outbursts as GET THAT KILLER (TiME...
Caveman Drawing. What a cartoonist draws is inevitably colored by what he feels, and the feelings of many a cartoonist are even plainer to detect than those of their like-minded colleagues at typewriters in the newsroom. The Washington Post's Herblock draws Goldwater with a snarling lip, but...
Though they are not provided for in the Constitution, they make important policy, execute it and sit as judges. There is hardly anyone in the U.S. who is not in some way affected by one or another of their acts. They fix the price of milk and electric power, decide...
The most vociferously disputed part of the new federal Civil Rights Act concerns the public accommodations title. It is based on the Constitution's commerce clause and says, in effect, that any public place of business that relates in any way to interstate commerce may not discriminate against Negroes...