Word: law
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...eleven Communists had been indicted and found guilty under the Smith Act. The law, passed by Congress in 1940, and never finally tested by the U.S. Supreme Court, made it a crime to teach or advocate the violent overthrow of the U.S. Government, or to conspire to commit such acts. There was no question of an overt act of violence; no revolution had actually been attempted. Had the activities of the eleven then constituted for the U.S. what Justice Holmes once characterized as "clear and present danger"? The defendants had merely plotted and planned, taught and preached. No matter...
...Matter of Law. He made it clear that despite the outcries of leftists, the Communist Party, as a political party, was not on trial. Only the eleven were on trial-eleven individuals charged with criminal conspiracy. The jury was not to try to decide whether the whole U.S. Communist Party was a criminal conspiracy; that question was not before...
...Medina Cram Course. At Columbia Law School, unrelenting effort began to pay off. At the end of his second year he passed his bar examination, married Ethel Hillyer of East Orange, N.J., and set up housekeeping on a $1,500 gift from his father. When he graduated, Ethel, through a friend, got him a job as law clerk at $8 a week in the office of Manhattan Attorney Charles Tuttle. He supplemented that by teaching law at Columbia, and began his "cram courses" for bar examinations which were to become famous in New York legal circles. Nearly 40,000 law...
...unprecedented move the Law School Class of 1924, at its 25th Reunion dinner last night in the Hotel Continental, presented the Law School with a gift of $30,000 "to be used at the Deans' discretion." Dean Erwin N. Griswold accepting the donation said that the gift "will establish an endowed scholarship providing full tuition for two students at one time...
Jawaharlal Nehru, Prime Minister of India, visited Harvard yesterday afternoon and within three hours dined with President Conant, posed for about 200 pictures, visited a typical student's room, walked through two libraries and an art museum, mot the Law School faculty, and watched a ten-minute movie about gas explosions...