Word: motioning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...motion to this effect will be made before the House votes on the bill today, Rep. John P. McMorrow '47 (D) of Suffolk, sponsor of the measure, said yesterday. The constitutional question centers around the main feature of the bill, which would compel private colleges to dismiss teachers who refuse to answer questions...
McMorrow expected the motion to pass the House without any difficulty. The Supreme Court would then take about three weeks, he estimated, to reach a decision...
Besides asking for a postponement on a final vote, today's motion will also specifically ask the Court this question...
...Jencks, an official of the Mine, Mill & Smelter Workers' Union, which was thrown out of the C.I.O. in 1950 for being Communist-dominated. On the strength of Matusow's recanting, Jencks, who had been convicted of falsifying a non-Communist affidavit, was requesting a new trial. The motion was being heard before Federal District Judge Robert Thomason, a onetime Democratic Congressman with a reputation as a liberal and a first-class lawyer. Judge Thomason changed the situation for Matusow...
...Judge Thomason threw Witt out of court. He held that a lawyer has a special duty to deny himself the protection of the Fifth Amendment in a case where he is counsel. After hearing the evidence, Judge Thomason made two more clear-cut decisions. He denied Jencks's motion. for a new trial, and then he turned to the Matusow problem...