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...Supreme Court this week denied Rhode Island and Alabama permission to file suits contesting the right of Congress to give seaboard states the land under U.S. coastal waters (tidelands). In an unsigned opinion, by a vote of 6-2 (Justices Hugo Black and William Douglas dissented; Chief Justice Earl Warren disqualified himself), the high court held that "the power over the public land . . . entrusted to Congress is without limitation...
...EARL ("Madman") Muntz, who as late as January was talking about further expansion of his TV-set business, has been blacked out by creditors, who threw his company into bankruptcy. Muntz admits that he is losing money ($1,457,000 from April to August 1953), but still thinks he can reorganize and stay in the TV business...
While California's Republican Senator Thomas Kuchel praised the "unsullied" reputation of Chief Justice Earl Warren, some 40 Senators this week sat quietly in their places, then confirmed Warren by voice vote. Among those on the floor was North Dakota's occasionally Republican Senator William Langer who, as chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, had held up Warren's confirmation for seven weeks−not necessarily out of malice, but merely to try to force the Administration to give him more patronage in North Dakota...
...German-American Bundsman Fritz Kuhn as well as Communist Boss William Z. Foster were knocked out for being too "notorious." No sports figures were included until 1943, when the rule was changed. Among the sports figures that Who's Who has listed: West Point's Football Coach Earl Blaik, Gene Tunney and Bobby Jones. In the 1952-53 edition Editor Sammons himself was dropped as an office joke perpetrated by his daughter, but he is back in the new edition...
...CRIMSON editorial lumps Prof. Lattimore with such figures as Gerhard Eisler, Earl Browder, and Gerald L. K. smith. Yet Lattimore is at most a moderate liberal, as borne out by his address. He does not even support , as I believe a good many Harvard students do, the recognition of Red China as the de facto regime of that nation. Yet because of the vicious and totally false picture of his views presented by the American McCarthyism, a picture apparently accepted to some degree by the Crimeds, he is presented as a radical and unorthodox figure...