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...Null & Void." Interposition was put to its ultimate test when General Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard's ultimatum touched off the bombardment of Sumter...
...talked with such intensity about legal doctrine. Some newspapers and legislators speak of "nullification"; others talk of "interposition," i.e., interposing the sovereignty of the state between its citizens and the Federal Government. The South Carolina legislature now has before it a resolution declaring the Supreme Court's decision "null and void and of no effect so far as this state is concerned...
...Pasadena, Calif., David Gordon was arrested for threatening null a deadly weapon when, at a local movie, he got annoyed at three popcorn-chewing men who sat behind him, whirled in his seat and stuck a .32-cal. revolver in their faces, ordered: "Keep your mouths shut...
...fieldstone southwing is Ike's home workshop. A small office contains a well-thumbed set of Winston Churchill's memoirs, a telephone directly connected to the White House, a portrait of Lincoln. Adjoining is Ike's beam-ceilinged study, a null room with a masculine air: soft leather lounge chairs, an old Dutch oven, a pine cabinet built from discarded White House timbers. On one wall is a reproduction of a cyclorama (TIME, July 5, 1954) of the Gettysburg battlefield, showing locations of men, guns and horses on July 3, 1863, when Pickett charged toward Cemetery Ridge...
...rostrum. "Twice I have warned the Assembly of the consequences of a violation of the Charter. An assault of passion and demagogy has led the Assembly to disregard the recommendations of its General Committee . . . My government refuses to accept any intervention of the U.N. . . . My government will consider as null and void any recommendation which the Assembly might make in this connection...