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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...night the judge worked until long after midnight on his decision. Next morning the courtroom was tense as he began to read it off. Principal point: Chairman Cole's subcommittee had exceeded its legitimate functions in questioning Icardi, "since neither affording an individual a forum in which to protest his innocence nor extracting testimony with a view to a perjury prosecution is a valid legislative purpose." Furthermore, the Icardi hearing amounted to a "legislative trial," and the authority of Congress to investigate "cannot be extended to sanction a legislative trial and conviction of the individual toward whom the evidence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LAW: Congress Off Limits | 4/30/1956 | See Source »

...unsigned letter and enclosed clippings from Paraguay state that the nation's Federation of University Students declared a general student strike in protest of the arrest and mistreatment of over 250 students by police since April...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Paraguay Students Protest Governmental Suppression | 4/28/1956 | See Source »

Early this month hundreds of clandestine pamphlets began circulating in Spain. Trumpeted one: "We demand the vital minimum salary of 75 pesetas a day and equal pay for women. We must protest the ridiculous wage increases that have been handed to us ... agitate for the minimum basic salary and a democratic Spain." Some pamphlets urged workers to stage a demonstration in mid-April. Rebellious Madrid University students who had demonstrated against the government of Dictator Francisco Franco in February (TIME, Feb. 20) planned new protests of their own, timed to break out just as Madrid played international host...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Strike Fever | 4/23/1956 | See Source »

...murmur of the civic protest reached the columns of the Exponent or the Telegram. But in Fairmont, 25 miles away, the evening West Virginian ran full accounts and, as an experiment, sent 2,000 copies into Clarksburg the day after the Non-Partisan Association was formed. Said a West Virginian executive: "We sold out between 12:30 and 2 p.m. When the people of Clarksburg saw our papers on the street, they actually hugged the carrier boys." On the day of the mass meeting, Clarksburg businessmen bought 2,000 of the Fairmont papers, gave them away free. Since then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Rebellion | 4/23/1956 | See Source »

...Truman says that he thinks the Post handled the news fairly when he was in the White House, but he has shown his dislike for its comment. Most famous example: his invective-choked letter of protest about Post Music Critic Paul Hume's criticism of daughter Margaret's singing in 1950. Publisher Graham has two far hotter letters from Truman that he says he will never make public...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Guest at Breakfast | 4/16/1956 | See Source »

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