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...itself cunning. The "plotters," said Khrushchev, had timed their attack on the Central Committee to coincide with the 250th anniversary (June 23) of Leningrad,* to prevent Presidium members from taking part in the celebrations in that city. Reason: the anti-party group was "particularly gravely guilty of the most flagrant errors and shortcomings which took place in the past" in Leningrad...
...Arkansas Senator branded the pair's performance a "flagrant abuse" of the Fifth Amendment, directed his staff to prepare contempt proceedings, expressed the hope that the test case might be carried, if necessary, to the highest court in the land. He did not believe, McClellan said, that a witness "is entitled to invoke the Fifth Amendment unless he can also state under oath, without perjuring himself, that he honestly believes that if he answered the question truthfully the truthful answer might tend to incriminate him." South Dakota's Karl Mundt, for the Republicans, was quick to join McClellan...
...flagrant injustice of William Palmer's trial would have been enough to make almost anyone sympathize. Of the three judges, two, including the Lord Chief Justice who presided, were set against Palmer from the start, and Mr. Baron Alderson--who was a personal enemy of Palmer's barrister--interfered in the trial with sarcastic comments on the evidence and counsel's efforts. The Lord Chief Justice showed open prejudice against the defending counsel, and even misdirected the jury...
...Christian principles of right and wrong." An effigy bearing the names of Sadler and Chapman dangled on the campus; another hung from the rotunda of the Capitol. Eighty student members of the Young Republicans and Young Democrats adopted a resolution condemning the university's action as a "flagrant" violation of the "principle of an equal chance for everyone...
...Till kidnapping case and murder of two NAACP leaders in Mississippi were flagrant examples of the absence of "equal protection of the laws" for the Negro citizen. In many less sensational cases between Negro and white, Southern courts have consistently meted prejudicial "justice." Unable to act because the cases themselves concern only violations of state laws, the Department has had to remain passive despite popular protest throughout the rest of the country. The present measure would give a legal implement for enforcing the intent of the Constitution, providing a special division of the Justice Department to investigate civil rights complaints...