Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most part, however, Walter was protected by the strict courtroom rules concerning relevancy of questions. It was a rough day for Ross, who had 102 questions excluded. His attempts to ask the Congressman whether the Committee had any information that entertainers were involved in any subversive activity, what the Committee had done in other hearings, and what it considered its jurisdiction--including whether Walter felt the Committee could investigate any and all activities of the Communist Party--were all frustrated. To the questions he was asked, Walter replied quickly and quietly...
Slow as the courtroom proceedings were to the spectaters, they seemed even slower for Seeger. Occasionally listening attentively, occasionally deedling on a scratch pad, he could also be sees drumming a little tune on the top of the dart mahogany table...
...Otherwise the state and religion would be aliens to each other-hostile, suspicious and even unfriendly . . . Prayers in our legislative halls; the appeals to the Almighty in the messages of the Chief Executive; the proclamation making Thanksgiving Day a holiday; 'so help me God' in our courtroom oaths- these and all other references to the Almighty that run through our laws, our public rituals, our ceremonies would be flouting the First Amendment." When the state cooperates in religious instruction, he wrote, ''it follows the best of our traditions...
...tense and packed Philadelphia courtroom last week, a drama took place that U.S. business will long remember-to its shame. The cases before him, said Federal District Judge J. Cullen Ganey, were "a shocking indictment of a vast section of our economy." They were more than that. They showed clearly that the executives of a mighty industry, publicly devoted to the concept of competition, had privately conspired to rig prices to the detriment of their customers on a scale so vast that it embraced everything from the Tennessee Valley Authority to the private utilities that supply the nation...
...courtroom drama was enhanced by the presence of two distinguished antagonists. Attorney Herbert Brownell Jr., acting as counsel for Westinghouse, rose seven times to state "Westinghouse pleads guilty." Opposing Brownell in court: U.S. Attorney and Trustbuster Robert Bicks, who in 1953 was brought into antitrust work in Washington by then U.S. Attorney General Brownell. "Bicks," said Judge J. Cullen Ganey, "has done a splendid job." To teach the guilty electrical companies a lesson, Trustbuster Bicks is expected to urge jail terms for some of the conspiring executives when sentence is pronounced next month...