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...Congress passed the Federal Communications Act, Section 605 of which provided that "no person not being authorized by the sender shall intercept any communication and divulge or publish the existence, contents, substance, purport, effect, or meaning ... to any person." Penalty: $10,000 fine or two years' imprisonment, or both. The history of the section indicates that Congress did not intend it to regulate wiretapping; the wording was lifted out of the Radio Act of 1927, where the apparent intent was to prevent pirating of messages by rival communications companies. But the Supreme Court applied Section 605 to wiretapping...
...concurred in the result." The cable recommended that China should be separated from the command of the bitterly anti-Chiang General Joseph Stilwell, and that General Albert Wedemeyer be appointed as top military commander in China. "The name and record of General Wedemeyer are enough to indicate that the purport of these recommendations was the opposite of pro-Communist," noted Wallace...
...Some people who dance, or purport to dance, don't do so on a personal level. They are content to appeal merely to primitive instincts...
...closed corporation" of mutual friends such as occurred in pre-war years when the Council chose many of its own members. This appointed advisory board would not be a representative group, but it does not need to be. For it would merely investigate student opinion; it would not purport to represent all students on any matter of University policy...
...Justice. Standing in an easy, stooped slouch and speaking quickly, Dulles told a crowd that had packed Amsterdam's Concertgebouw hall to its olive-green walls: "The Soviet Communist regime is not a regime of peace, and, indeed, it does not purport to be. It may not, and I hope that it does not, want international war. But, if so, that is a matter of expediency, not of principle ... It rejects the moral premises that alone make possible the permanent organization of peace . . . There is, says Stalin, no such thing as 'eternal justice' . . . Human beings have...