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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sitting in a rear-row seat, right next to Freshman Senator Truman, Freshman Senator Minton gave his theory of a highly flexible Constitution a bumptious workout. In 1937, after the New Deal had given up its court-packing scheme, he proposed a drastic change in the Supreme Court's procedure-one which would require a two-thirds majority in all decisions dealing with the constitutionality of acts of Congress. Minton later toyed with the Constitution again, when he introduced a bill to gag the press by imposing a $1,000,-to-$10,000 fine on publications which printed...
...Senate, Minton lasted only one term but as a reward for faithful service President Roosevelt gave him an appointment as one of his six "anonymous assistants." In 1941 Roosevelt appointed him to the seventh U.S. circuit court of appeals. As a judicial interpreter of the Constitution, he seemed to tone down some of his ideas and he established a reputation as a competent and liberal-minded judge, if no legal world-shaker...
...point, he swore he "could not remember" where his only child was born in 1942, later on produced glib details of his own life in kindergarten, nearly 40 years ago. He blandly told the court that the name "Philip" appeared on his birth certificate, unbeknown to him or his parents, because one of his aunts "had a peculiar penchant for naming babies Philip." As confusion piled on top of contradiction, Judge Medina clasped both hands over his head in bewilderment. Medina's patience was beginning to grow thin: when Defense Attorney George W. Crockett Jr. got into the wrangling...
That was last May. Last week Laszlo Rajk (pronounced Royk) spoke again in calm and measured accents. What he said might have been a complete fabrication-but it made an interesting tale. For five hours, before the Hungarian People's Court which was trying him for subversion and espionage, he told a closely detailed story of 18 years of double life as a police informer, traitor, spy and conspirator planted in Hungary's Communist Party. He said that he had worked in succession for Dictator Horthy's police, Hitler's Gestapo, and U.S. Intelligence. This year...
Later that day, he told the court, he sneaked down behind the reviewing stand where he met Rankovich. They discussed details of the plotted coup d'etat...