Word: j
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...J. LEWIS...
...William Fife Knowland thought he knew where to begin the slowdown, went back to the Capitol to take aim on a Democratic special: the $1 billion Community Facilities bill designed to pump 3½% loans into worthy town and city public-works projects, which Banking and Currency Committee Chairman J. William Fulbright had reported onto the Senate floor for speedy action. Before the day was done, stolid Bill Knowland's slowdown had rolled into a fast-moving Republican revolt against the well-laid plans of Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Baines Johnson...
...majority opinion, written by Justice John Marshall Harlan, cited the overwhelming precedent upholding criminal-contempt convictions without juries. Justice William J. Brennan reserved his opinion on the constitutional points involved, dissented on the ground of insufficient evidence. But Hugo Black wrote a dissenting opinion for himself, Chief Justice Earl Warren and William Douglas, which struck at the foundations of the judiciary's enforcement powers. Wrote Black: "The power of a judge to inflict punishment for criminal contempt by means of a summary proceeding stands as an anomaly in the law . . . No official, regardless of his position or the purity...
...Supreme Court also closed the book on one of the last of the Truman Administration scandals last week: it refused to review the convictions of Matthew J. Connelly, appointments secretary to President Truman, and Theron Lamar ("Sweet Thing") Caudle, Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Justice Department's tax division. They were fined $2,500 and sentenced to two years in prison each for conspiring to fix a tax case during their days in power. Although Connelly and Caudle can ask the Supreme Court to reconsider, their chances are indeed remote...
...take Gunther seriously, because he tells both sides." Inside Europe landed in Churchill's library (and so firmly in Hitler's bad book that Gunther was marked for postwar liquidation by the Nazis). Inside Asia was on Harry Truman's desk when he broadcast his V-J day speech. Inside Africa was studied dutifully by Russia's Dmitry Shepilov, who cited it in a United Nations tirade against British colonialism, and by Richard Nixon, whose party was weighted with copies of the book on his 1957 visit to Africa...