Word: felix
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...people of Abidjan are already on their way to work, the men loping along in giant and graceful strides, bantering in a French laced with local slang, e.g., "Avion!" for "Hurry up!", "Japan" for anything shoddy. The symbol of the Coast's progress is the French-financed Felix Houphouet-Boigny Bridge that stretches across the Ebrié Lagoon and supports a four-lane highway and a two-track railway...
...FELIX ANSELM Evanston...
...lower courts that Secretary Dulles was justified in denying passports to New York Artist Rockwell Kent and Los Angeles Psychiatrist Walter Briehl in 1955, when they refused to sign non-Communist affidavits. Net of the majority opinion, written by Justice William O. Douglas, with Chief Justice Earl Warren, Justices Felix Frankfurter, Hugo Black, William Brennan concurring: passport legislation, jelling into the Passport Acts of 1926 and 1952, authorized the Secretary to deny passports in peacetime only to 1) noncitizens, 2) citizens engaged in illegal activity...
...said Justice Harold H. Burton, writing the Supreme Court majority opinion (joined by Felix Frankfurter, Tom Clark, William Brennan, Charles Evans Whittaker and John Marshall Harlan). Even assuming that the Taft-Hartley Act permits the NLRB to assess unions for back pay in certain cases, that, said Burton, would not prevent a plaintiff from seeking full damages in state courts. To hold otherwise, he wrote, would "grant to unions a substantial immunity" from the consequences of illegal mass picketing or coercion...
...named Commander in Chief, Pacific, with 500,000 men, 400 ships, 2,500 planes, to do the job of deploying U.S. power and backstopping U.S. diplomacy from Alaska to the Indian Ocean. And Flyer Don Felt's legacy, left him by retiring four-star Admiral five-year CINCPAC Felix Budwell Stump, 63, veteran of Leyte Gulf (1944), Indo-China (1954), Quemoy-Matsu (1954-55), and Indonesia (1958), was again the legacy of a big moment. "If the U.S. fails to take a strong position," said Admiral Stump, "all Asia will surely regard us as a subbreed of paper tiger...