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...Administration's civil-rights bill. Minority Leader Joe Martin quickly realized that his work was cut out for him. The Southerners were concentrating their fire on a single point: the provision that a federal judge may order an end to interference with civil rights (including voting), thus also punish violators of his order for contempt of court. Bound on gutting the bill, Southern legislators rallied around an amendment taking contempt punishment out of the judge's hands and putting it in the hands of a jury. The trial-by-jury cry, a ,pretty good rabble-rouser, stirred...
Actually, said Cottonman Fleming, the Department of Agriculture export program is just plain old-fashioned dumping, and the U.S. has laws to punish other countries who try to do this in the U.S. Now, said Fleming, "by espousing international dumping as the key procedure for liquidation of cotton surpluses, we have initiated a reaction from these principles, back toward an isolationism which, if adopted by other nations, will play havoc with our export markets...
...Hill defenders sadly disappointed: "I don't see how it is possible for any President to work with . . . the whole Republican group except through their elected leadership. This doesn't mean that in special cases and for special purposes you don't." Did he intend to "punish" the leaders who are attacking his program and "reward" those who support it? Snapped Ike: "I don't think it is the function of the President of the U.S. to punish anybody for voting what he believes...
Away As At Home. Smith's ultimatum was prompted by a contempt case in which it was fined $140 for distributing an issue of Newsweek containing a story that was held prejudicial to Dr. Adams' case. While punishing the distributor, the court did not punish Newsweek, ruled that Newsweek's London bureau chief, Eldon W. Griffiths, was not responsible.' since he testified that he had cabled nothing on the Adams trial and that the offending account had been written in New York from newspaper clippings...
...laws or regulations exist under which the embarrassing problem can be rationally dealt with. Said Trud last February: "Are these women not breaking a basic law of Socialism, 'He who does not work does not eat,' and is it not time that steps were taken to punish these people...