Word: lowers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...decision, the Supreme Court ruled last week that the Secretary of State has no authority to deny passports to U.S. citizens on the ground of "beliefs" or "associations." The court thus overturned the findings of lower courts that Secretary Dulles was justified in denying passports to New York Artist Rockwell Kent and Los Angeles Psychiatrist Walter Briehl in 1955, when they refused to sign non-Communist affidavits. Net of the majority opinion, written by Justice William O. Douglas, with Chief Justice Earl Warren, Justices Felix Frankfurter, Hugo Black, William Brennan concurring: passport legislation, jelling into the Passport Acts...
Either answer would be wildly wrong, according to the FBI's latest Uniform Crime Reports. In the FBI list of felony rates in U.S. cities, Chicago ranks as the second most law-abiding of all, next to Buffalo, and the rate in New York City is lower than in Boston. Larger cities in the list, with rates per 1,000 of population for murder, non-negligent manslaughter, aggravated assault, robbery, burglary, larceny, auto theft...
...Free Jurists," making no effort ta defend Bonn's tolerance of ex-Nazis, published a look-who's-talking report about Nazis in high places in East Germany, listing name, rank and party-card-number documentation. At least 28 of the 400 members of the East German lower house, the report showed, including Volkskammer Vice President Heinrich Homann, were once active members of the Nazi Party, and there are also two ex-Nazis in East Germany's as well as West Germany's Cabinet...
...independence, of being shut out of U.S. tariff walls. A Tariff Commission economist came down here, and I had two or three long talks with him. I said: 'Of course Puerto Rico cannot be independent in the same way as the Philippines, which have greater resources and lower population density, but let's see if it's possible to work something out.' He said: 'Suppose the U.S. gave Puerto Rico freedom and also free trade with the U.S.; other countries with most-favored-nation clauses in their treaties would demand it, too.' The whole...
Since 1940, the birth rate has declined sharply; Puerto Rico's population rise lately is due entirely to a drastic drop in the death rate, which is now lower than...