Word: pastes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Supreme Court decisions last year in the cases of New Mexico Lawyer Rudolph Schware, who had been denied a license to practice law because of previous Communist membership, and of California Lawyer Raphael Konigsberg, who was refused admission to the bar because he refused to answer questions about past Communist associations. The court ordered a license issued to Schware and that Konigsberg be admitted...
...vote, should become the final judges of whether their questions to witnesses are pertinent to a valid legislative purpose. This is in reply to last year's Supreme Court decision reversing the contempt-of-Congress conviction of United Auto Workers Organizer John Watkins, who had refused to identify past Communist associates to the House Un-American Activities Committee. The court held that Watkins had been denied due process because he had no way of knowing whether the committee's questions were actually pertinent to a valid legislative purpose...
Chevrolet Dealer Robert Knoepfler sold 15 new cars and trucks in April, cleared out 25 used ones. At first he figured that he had simply cut into his competitors' business. Then Clay Carriker, manager of Greene's Ford, said that his new-car sales for the past 60 days were 20% ahead of 1957, used cars 30%; high-priced new trucks were slow, but lower-priced used trucks were hot. Another major beneficiary of the farmer's new-found prosperity was the farm-machinery business. Owner Don Berkemeir of the Lytle Implement Co. reported that he sold...
...William P. Rogers, referring to current congressional attempts to limit jurisdiction of the U.S. Supreme Court (see The Congress): "There have been periods in our history when the 'kill the umpire' attitude made considerable headway, and many pop bottles have been thrown at our courts in the past. Fortunately, except in minor ways, the legislature has never taken these attacks seriously enough to alter the judicial system or retaliate against the judiciary...
Then came the letdown to the field. It was a few minutes past midnight-two hours since the trouble had begun-when Obie turned into his final approach. He was too high, too far to the left of the runway. "I didn't have time to think. The GCA station was telling me to go around. The tower told me to go around-everybody in the world told me to go around. I didn't say one word. I just kept coming in. I felt I had used every bit of energy I ever had. I didn...