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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Glittering Cibola. Coronado, the second son of a Spanish nobleman, had no money of his own. The law of primogeniture had sent him packing to the New World in search of his fortune. Five years before, in 1535, he had arrived in Mexico City at the side of the viceroy; an "attractive and popular" man, he had been made governor of Nueva Galicia, the province just northwest of the capital...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: New World | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr and ex -Congresswoman Clare Boothe Luce agreed politely Saturday, night that modern capitalism is not entirely compatible with the precepts, of Christianity. They spoke before over 1,800 spectators at the Law School Forum...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1800 Hear Luce Debate Niebuhr in Law Forum | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

Saturday's Law Forum, held at the Cambridge High and Latin School, was broadcast nationally...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1800 Hear Luce Debate Niebuhr in Law Forum | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

...courtroom scenes are enough to make a law student turn green with nausea. At one point Mrs. Bonner, in an attempt to prove that women are equal to men in every respect, brings in a circus woman who does back flips and lifts Mr. Bonner...

Author: By Brenton WELLING Jr., | Title: Adam's Rib | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

...disloyal by membership is, or sympathetic association, with certain organizations which he, the Attorney General would determine are subversive. Thus, the power to decide who was eligible for government employment was placed in the hands of one man, unfettered by any unconstitutional guarantees of due process of law. Justice Jackson condemned this type of proceeding when, speaking for the Supreme Court is West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette, 319 US 624, 642 (1943) he said: "If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Against the Loyalty Oaths | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

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