Word: heard
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...against the idea that the President should have discretionary power to adjust tax rates in order to deflate or reflate the economy over short periods. "In the first place, people are entitled to be heard when taxes are to be increased. I don't know any place in the White House where the President could have a hearing room big enough to hear those who would want to discuss increases in taxes. But the main thing in my mind is that I just don't feel that taxes can be raised and lowered, season by season, or that...
...Says he: "I've had my say and I'll let it stand. The old image has been bruised a bit in the press this past week or so. But the people who really count know the truth and they're going to weigh what they heard in court...
...eventual dis honorable discharge. "I am shocked," said Paul Halvonik, an American Civil Liberties Union attorney who defended Sood. "Fifteen years for going out and singing and raising his fingers in a 'V is absurd." Sood, a draftee who had gone AWOL last September because he heard that his wife was neglecting their children back home, was due for discharge at Fort Lewis, Wash., the week he was arrested...
...defines mutiny, "for the shock effect." He said that he did not read the article that prescribes the penalties for disturbing the peace because his mind was "focused on mutiny." The defense brought in an acoustical expert who said that the prisoners in the enclosed courtyard could not have heard Lament's warning carried over a loudspeaker. The charge of mutiny itself was questioned by Army Investigator Captain Richard J. Millard. In a report that was never revealed to the court, Millard wrote: "To charge mutiny, an offense which has its roots in the harsh admiralty laws...
...HEARD to see how this king of content is going to save us from assassinations and floods, but I will give Peters the benefit of the doubt. The theme of "Hey, what are these assistant doing with all this power!" in the Moyers interview and the Baker-Peters piece is especially significant. These journalists cannot see beyond their own forms--there is surprise here that people may be doing something that they are not perhaps supposed to do in their role definitions, and the conclusion is that this is good, and sometimes...