Word: nine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...court directed the acquittal of five California Communists and ordered a new trial for nine others, all convicted in 1952 under the antisubversive Smith...
...since the Nine Old Men shot down Franklin Roosevelt's Blue Eagle in 1935 has the Supreme Court been the center of such general commotion in newspapers (see PRESS) and in the bar. The New York Times trotted out the kind of headlines usually reserved for war or disaster. Cried a Chicago lawyer: "This court is unanalytical; it's vicious, it's stupid, it's illiterate, it's subjective." Retorted a California judge: "The decisions are sound and timely. The trials of Communists here are comparable only to the trial of Cardinal Mindszenty in Hungary...
...Angeles editor of the Communist People's World. Gathered around Connelly in a Los Angeles lawyer's office last week was a jubilant quorum of the 14 California Communist leaders in whose cases the U.S. Supreme Court had just ordered acquittal (for five), and new trials (for nine). Spokesman Connelly was giving out the new Red line that Communist martyrdom (including, said Manhattan's Daily Worker, those "sublimely heroic" atom spies, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg) had broadened the liberties of all Americans. More accurately, the court had just considerably narrowed the law against the activities of Communist...
...including dissenting Justice Clark, said the court was invading the province of the jury, the Constitution clearly gives the Supreme Court appellate jurisdiction "both as to Law and Fact"). Result: the court ordered that five of the defendants (including Slim Connelly) must be freed entirely, but that the other nine could be tried again on the sole basis of their "advocacy and teaching...
Despite their drain on the contractor's pocket, the machines that cost as much as $100,000 apiece save plenty of money in the long run. Contractors can get 66% more work with the same labor force as only nine years ago. Today's machine operator is a specialist who may make up to $15,000 a year, and it costs little more to have him operate a larger machine that can do more work. Since the average machine pays for itself long before wearing out, contractors figure they can afford $30,000 in new equipment to eliminate...