Word: hearings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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John Lewis lumbered into federal court this week to hear the verdict on whether or not he was in contempt of court. He had made a deal through Speaker Joe Martin which had settled, for the time at least, the 29-day coal strike and pension-fund fight which had brought about the strike. But he still had to answer to the law for waiting nine days before he obeyed a court order to send his miners back to work. His contention was that he had never sent them...
...disqualify himself when the defense pointed out that he had been the U.S. attorney in the trial of previous contempt-of-Congress cases. He refused to move the trial when the defense contended that a jury of federal employees would be "intimidated" by the committee. He refused to hear Producer Dore Schary as a character witness, ruling that Lawson's character and political beliefs were not at issue. He refused to see The Jolson Story or any of the other Lawson films which the defense had stacked in cans outside the courtroom door. And he indignantly brushed aside...
Last Sunday, while the Italians were voting, the Paris comrades were summoned to the Stade Buffalo, a sports stadium, to hear Maurice Thorez. To 25,000 of the faithful, Thorez announced the new line-"la main tendue" (the outstretched hand). Said he: "The party extends a fraternal hand ... to all democrats, to all socialists who do not wish to be the pawns of American millionaires, to all Catholics sincerely devoted to progress and freedom, to all men of the Resistance...
...need make that kind of apology for Toscanini-and no one ever has. The "poison" that he spreads has only grown more potent and magical with the years. Today, the crowds that choke Manhattan's Radio City on Saturday nights for the Maestro's broadcast concerts hear the music of a man who is without question the greatest living conductor. They also look upon-and this is Toscanini's secret -an incorruptible man in a corruptible world...
...organizational meeting has been called for tonight at 7:30 o'clock in Adams Upper Common Room, when students interested in drafting Eisenhower for President will congregate to hear Houghteling and several as yet unnamed members of the faculty discuss the situation...