Word: matter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Laughing Matter. In Salt Lake City, Mrs. Ida Thompson complained in her divorce suit that her husband "frequently purchased comic books by the dozen [and] read them...
Speaking as a loyal and devout Catholic, I was as much astonished as anyone else at the decoration of William Randolph Hearst . . . and very happy to know that I am under no obligation whatever to agree with our Pope in this matter...
...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 how unpopular such activities, wasn't the law that forbade them an infringement of the First Amendment, an abridgment of the right of free speech...
Whether clear and present danger could be shown or not, the fact of the matter was that the Reds intended to bring their plans to fruition "at the earliest time that circumstances would permit...
...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...