Word: law
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their time ran out, opposition Senators took on an air of desperation and despair. "We will be making the mistake of our lives," cried Missouri's Forrest Donnell. Nebraska's Kenneth Wherry raised an atomic cloud over the issue: "A treaty supersedes a law. Are we committing ourselves ... to share the atomic bomb?" Cried Ohio's Robert Taft: "It is not a peace program, it is a war program...
Last week, the regents told how they would enforce the law. Henceforth, every board of education in the state will make an annual investigation of all teachers and other employees, then report to the regents. Any employee found to be disloyal or a member of a "subversive group" will be tried, and if found guilty, fired. First reports will be due on Oct. 31. The regents promised to have a master list of subversive groups ready in September...
Muriel Kaplan dared not let the baby out of her sight. She all but gave up her law practice. She and her husband Bernard (once a pro football player, now in a television business) were rooted to their home in New Rochelle, N.Y. Three times one of them sat up all night holding Sandy upright-she seemed to breathe easier that way. Twice she had to be rushed to hospitals and given oxygen. The family physician, Dr. Edwin Raymond, often gave Sandy artificial respiration...
...Senators were also looking for other doors to lock. With the Army tracking down the shennanigans of "Five-Percenters" (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), Nebraska's Senator Hugh Butler thought the Government ought to go after its own ex-officials who practice law before the same agencies they once bossed...
Ties That Bind. In Nowata, Okla., after passing out parking tickets to his brother, his wife and his brother-in-law, Police Chief Arthur Stooky concluded: "It's getting to the point where I've got to decide whether to leave my job or my family...