Word: legalizes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Originally the Bill was aimed at investigating citizens advocating any doctrine "inconsistent with" the state and federal constitutions. This phrase would have endangered even those who urged legal amendment of the present constitutions. The Bill as now reworded directs the Committee to investigate-"when there is credible evidence"-persons who "are promoting, furthering or participating in any totalitarian movement which has as an objective . . . the changing by force or other unlawful means our duly constituted forms of national or state governments." As in the case of the Barnes Bill, this seems to be a superfluous piece of legislation since...
...give contraceptive information: "I don't think that Roman Catholicism forces a man to interfere with other people's freedom of conscience and action within their own moral principles. In a democracy such as ours, a man's religion does not oblige him to force legal restrictions on another man's freedom of action...
...University of Maryland, which quietly admitted its first Negro to the law school 13 years ago, and has already graduated four, now has 23 Negro law students. Johns Hopkins University at Baltimore, a private school under no legal compulsion to admit Negroes, has also admitted "a few" Negroes into graduate work...
Died. Walter Francis Frear, 84, first Supreme Court Chief Justice of the Hawaiian Islands (1900-07), third Governor (1907-13); in Honolulu. A circuit judge under Queen Liliuokalani, he helped frame the legal code of the islands when they became a U.S. territory...
...loans) in New York and Chicago commercial banks from 20% to 22% beginning Feb. 27. In effect, an additional $500-odd million will be put into cold storage, thus shrinking credit. FRB is expected to raise reserve requirements gradually in the two big money centers to the present legal limit...