Word: perils
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chafee-Sutherland letter states in part. "The witness is not the ultimate judge of the tendency of an answer to incriminate him. . . A judge must decide when the witness has gone far enough to demonstrate his peril." Meiklejohn points out that in a criminal procedure, the defendant is the "ultimate judge as to whether or not he shall testify." He then asks the question: "On what grounds do they assign to a Congressional Committee an authority over an accused person which, in criminal proceedings, is denied to every agency charged with the administration of justice...
...tend, rightly or wrongly, to convict him of a crime. Manifestly, this is a delicate business. The witness must not be required to prove his guilt in demonstrating the incriminating character of the answer sought. A judge must decide when the witness has gone far enough to demonstrate his peril...
...last week, as the 1954 campaign got rolling, Republicans and Democrats alike were dueling with jagged fragments of great issues, to the peril of the issues themselves. The jagged fragment that some Democrats liked best was a charge that the U.S. economy is in a recession and headed for worse (see below); they were saying privately that the only way for the Democrats to win control of the House and Senate in the fall lies in increased unemployment and depressed farm prices. The jagged fragment that some Republicans liked best was a sweeping and scurrilous charge that the Democrats form...
...Slicing My Back." The concessions-which drew the most attention in the commission's formal report-included: 1) tampering only slightly with "peril points" and the "escape clause," which keep tariffs high enough to protect any U.S. industry from injury; 2) proposing strong "countervailing" duties for retaliating against nations that control their exports of raw materials to the U.S.; 3) specifically limiting the President's leeway in trade-agreement negotiations. Most important, the commission stopped short of proposing eventual elimination of tariffs, confined itself to urging moderate reductions over the next three years...
Among the most outspoken opponents of pay-as-you-see is RCA's David Sarnoff, who feels that 1) charging for programs might peril freedom of broadcasting, since FCC regulation of such rates might open the door to overall rate regulations; and 2) free programs are an American tradition. Pay-as-you-see proponents fear FCC also believes the air should be free, but they see no reason why FCC cannot set aside certain channels for their use, while free telecasting continues on all the other channels. They think the tradition of free programs is no more sacrosanct than...