Word: legalizes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Commenting on the decision, N.S.A. president Ed Schwartz said that the judge had contradicted himself by refusing jurisdiction while passing a summary judgment on the facts of the case. Judge Hart had ruled that the Hershey letter "had no legal effect whatsoever...
...would have recognized that a question of principle was involved. They would not have interfered. But Mr. Watson's book dealt with an arcane problem of science, a still more difficult problem of the scientific personality, a highly subjective question of libel, and an even more inassessable threat of legal action. On sidestepping a professional squabble or avoiding a lawsuit, one may assume, the Corporation saw no question of principle. To be sure they also failed to see that these were questions on which an occasional gathering of excellent but inexperienced laymen would inevitably be uninformed. They did seek advice...
Alimony, says Miami Circuit Judge Thomas Lee Jr., "is like trying to take one blanket and stretch it over two beds." It is also one of the main legal skirmish lines in the battle of the sexes. "It's not fair to me or the two children," says Linda Sue Beasley, 24, an attractive Indianapolis, Ohio, divorcée who receives $30 a month. "Hell, I should know," says a Los Angeles stockbroker. "I've been through three divorces and didn't get one fair shake...
...week. The unions claim that they cannot get management to negotiate. Their picketing has proved ineffectual, even when it was reinforced by occasional mob scenes in front of the Examiner. Non-union people were beaten up, windows smashed. But the police have cleared the area of all but the legal number of pickets. The best the unions can do is photograph every person who leaves the building, for a growing file on strikebreakers. Even the Teamsters have not been able to cause much trouble because Hearst has hired non-union drivers to deliver the paper...
...pack the Supreme Court. Both men overestimated the people's mandate, and both came off badly. The President, as Frankfurter's letters make clear, did not let his friend in on the scheme until it was sprung on the country. But then he enlisted Frankfurter's legal advice as he tried to push it through. Although Frankfurter had misgivings over Roosevelt's political heavyhandedness, he acquiesced. He was convinced that the Court had provoked reprisals by its exercise of judicial power, and in a letter to F.D.R. dated Feb. 7, 1937, he wrote that "means...