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From the moment he walked into court to defend black-haired Judith Coplon (TIME. March 14) on charges of espionage, it was obvious that Attorney Archibald Palmer would do his best to turn drama into burlesque. In years of trying bankruptcy and miscellaneous claims cases in Manhattan, loudmouthed little Archie Palmer had learned every trick. Last week in Washington, he used them...
Slipping off to Hartford, he appeared at a press conference with Democratic Governor Chester Bowles at his side. Some time before the end of the year, they announced, Baldwin would resign from the Senate to take a $12,000-a-year vacancy on the state's Supreme Court of Errors. Though the appointment was nominally for only eight years, it was traditionally a lifetime job, and 55-year-old Raymond Baldwin would be in line for the post of chief justice in four years...
Associate Justice Robert H. Jackson of the Supreme Court was among the speakers at Thursday night's dinner...
Much revised, State Representative Ralph W. Sullivan's bill to eliminate the "teaching of atheistic communism," in Massachusetts schools and colleges was approved yesterday by a voice vote at a third and final reading in the House of Representatives of the General Court...
Originally, H-442 proposed to deprive any educational institution in the Commonwealth of its tax exemption privileges if it employed an advocate of "atheistic communism" on its faculty. During hearings before the General Court Education Committee the phrasing of H-442 was changed to direct it toward those who preached the "overthrow of the government by force or violence" rather than proponents of communism...