Word: minton
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spite of the objections to the police methods, the Supreme Court (splitting 5-4) upheld the conviction of Irvine. Written by Justice Jackson (Warren, Reed, Minton and Clark concurring), the majority opinion 1) held that the federal gambling tax stamp is not a license to violate state law, and 2) reaffirmed the Court's previous ruling that the Federal Constitution does not forbid the use in state courts of illegally seized evidence...
...Ogden Minton Pleissner seems born to the tweed. He has the cool eyes and calm hands of the sportsman, and he puffs a pipe as if it were part of himself. Duck, trout and partridge are Pleissner's meat; bourbon-on-the-rocks is his drink. He is equally at home in the uplands of Wyoming, in the Vermont hills, where he mainly vacations nowadays-and in his Manhattan studio. When Pleissner is not hunting or fishing, he paints pictures of a highly successful kind. This week 24 of his latest, including the watercolors opposite, went on view...
...unwarranted. A conspiracy was charged and proved . . . the Atomic Energy Act [of 1946] did not repeal or limit the provisions of the Espionage Act [of 1917]. Accordingly, we vacate the stay entered by Mr. Justice Douglas ..." Concurring with Vinson, were: Associate Justices Harold Burton, Tom Clark, Robert Jackson, Sherman Minton, Stanley Reed. Against were Justices Douglas and Hugo Black. Justice Felix Frankfurter could not make up his mind...
...decision: Justices Frankfurter, Douglas, Jackson, Clark and Burton concurred with Black; Chief Justice Vinson, Justices Reed and Minton disagreed, took a position in support of the President...
...Upheld (6-3) New York's Feinberg law, which provides that membership in subversive organizations (as listed by the State Board of Regents) is sufficient reason for firing teachers or other school employees. Wrote Justice Sherman Minton for the majority: "The school authorities have the right and duty to screen the officials, teachers and employees as to their fitness . . . One's associates, past and present, as well as one's conduct, may properly be considered in determining fitness and loyalty." Dissenting Justices: Douglas, Frankfurter and Black...