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...disposition of these new oil fields has become a great political struggle with the states in Congress, backed by monstor lobbies, lined up against President Truman and the administration. The Supreme Court seems to favor the administration, but the tricky wording of its decision establishing a doctrine of "paramount rights" has left its stand in doubt. The struggle has crossed party lines with many Democrats, particularly those from the oil states, going against the administration...
Those favoring the bill for federal ownership concentrate their views on the Supreme Court decision. They say that since the states never owned the land the states have no rights to be considered whatever. Since the United States has "paramount rights and full dominion" in this land, why should the government give the land away? How can the federal government, they argue, give land in which all the states have an interest to three states? This, they say, would be a quitclaim, and they see no reason...
...Supreme Court issued its now famous 6-2 California Decision on June 23, 1947. Justice Hugo Black's majority decision said that the United States possesses "paramount rights in and full dominion and power over" the lands under consideration. The Court further stated that the "State of California has no title thereto or property interest therein." The reasoning behind the majority decision was that former decisions referred to tidelands, and the strict definition of tidelands is the land covered by the ebb and flow of the tides. No court ruling had ever been made covering the area between this tideland...
...important, however, that the Court did not say that the federal government owned this land. When Tom Clark later asked the Court to issue a degree declaring that the United States had proprietary interests, the Court refused and stuck by its doctrine of paramount rights...
Whispering Smith* (Paramount) is a standard horse opera, in Technicolor, full of fights, gunplay, chases, and the wholesome passion of a clean-cut Ladd (Alan) for a Good Woman (Brenda Marshall). The complicating fact is that Brenda is married to Alan's old friend (Robert Preston). But Preston develops a taste for too much liquor, too many women and two evil companions (Donald Crisp and Frank Faylen...