Word: pointing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Reader Daniel has a point, but a debatable one. Other readers in another century raised the same question -but, said the London Times in 1896: "On the whole, we may consider we are tolerably safe in holding that the next century begins on January...
Waters, Fingers, Wells. Lilienthal seemed to be trying to make two points. One of them was that where no secret information was involved (and therefore no question of national security), no federal investigation of a federal scholarship holder was justified. Mixing his metaphors, Lilienthal declared: "Once you have passed the secrecy line, you are in the broad, tragic waters of the federal government's finger in education." His other point was that such bans, once begun, might be extended to "potentially subversive" students. Bureaucratic decisions "as to who is pure and who is not pure" would, he cried, "poison...
Pouncing on this point, the majority said: "A function of free speech under our system of government is to invite dispute. It may indeed best serve its high purpose when it induces a condition of unrest, creates dissatisfaction with conditions as they are, or even stirs people to anger." Freedom of speech, they said, could not be denied unless it created, in the late Oliver Wendell Holmes's classic phrase, "a clear and present danger" to public safety and welfare...
...Invite Anarchy. Chief Justice Vinson was among the dissenters; since no one in the lower courts had questioned the point, he denied the right of the Supreme Court to "ferret out" the judge's instructions and attack them. He thought this was meddling with state courts...
...course Stricker referred to, one text was the report of President. Truman's Council of Economic Advisors, and to show the union's point of view, the instructor passed out--on request--two union pamphlets...