Word: courting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After a stop at the Circuit Court of Appeals, the Communist conspiracy case will move to the U. S. Supreme Court. Here the Justices will have to deal with a highly important issue: the constitutionality of the Smith Act, under which the 11 indictments were brought...
...past week many newspapers have made a dramatic comparison between the safeguards employed in the Communist trial and the methods of the recent Czechoslovakian purge. The comparison is legitimate and brings credit to our courts. But it is less satisfactory to compare the procedures in Judge Medina's court with the methods of some for our Loyalty Boards, which can not imprison a man, but which can deprive him of his job and his reputation...
Loyalty boards who subscribe to such nonsense might well read up on he mechanics of the Communist trial to find out what are proper procedures for trying American citizens. It is true that a Loyalty Board is not a court of law. But since when is justice so closely confined...
Dean Wesley A. Sturges of Yale Law School presented the case for the small, progressive legal institution at an almost capacity Langdell Court Room last night...
...been trained as a nurse in the north, and has fallen in love with a white doctor. When she returns to the South to escape the obvious complications of her attachment, she is bequeathed the estate of an old lady whom she nurses and later wins a court fight to gain possession of it. Her choice is between working among her people in the south, or going off with the doctor, who has pursued her, to start life anew...