Word: hearsay
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...survey popular sentiment. Before Gutenberg, word of mouth constituted man's principal means for exchanging knowledge, and it would be difficult to prove that modern instruments of communication have improved things much. If legend and myth are solidified rumor, so may be the printed picture and word-secondhand hearsay that is susceptible to the same kind of distortion that rumor undergoes in its journey from one willing ear to the next...
...absence of the full bench was Paul Reardon. Three years ago, Reardon drew up the American Bar Association's stringent Fair Trial-Free Press code, which, among other things, recommended excluding reporters from all pretrial proceedings or hearings that do not take place before a jury. "Hearsay can be introduced at any inquest," Reardon said last week, "even hearsay on top of hearsay." After granting a postponement, Reardon pointedly implied that District Attorney Edmund Dinis and other authorities involved in the case had been speaking too freely. Such statements, he warned as Dinis sat grimly in the courtroom, "carry...
...challenge to the constitutionality of HUAC. The case stems out of Chicago hearings in 1965 conducted by the Committee in which several prominent citizens claim they were slandered. One of these included Dr. Jeremiah Stamler, a director for the Chicago Board of Health and associate professor at Northwestern. On hearsay evidence, and sometimes not even that, the late Joe Pool (D-Tex.) tried to link Stamler's name with known Communists. This time, with the support of a solidly Republican law firm, Stamler sued HUAC as soon as it issued him a subpoena. The suit argues that the Committee...
This paragraph, the last in the article, refers to a matter of hearsay, a statement attributed to one of our friends and advocates, Senator William Proxmire. That statement is misleading and in effect false. It is not in the context in which it was related...
...Hearsay aside, the record provides the following...