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...organized under the chairmanship of Maryland's Senator Herbert O'Conor, who was once a governor himself, slapped a subpoena on the governor, ordering him to show up in Washington this week. Warren challenged the committee's power to remove him from Florida and thus "restrain me from the discharge of my responsibilities as chief executive of a sovereign state." He appealed for advice to South Carolina's Governor James Byrnes, onetime Supreme Court Justice, and got some support. The committee was being "overzealous," Jimmy Byrnes thought. To take personal jurisdiction over a governor "threatens...
...battle was joined in Manhattan's district court, where Disney and RKO sued Souvaine and Brandt to restrain them from unveiling Bunin's Alice and cashing in on the Disney picture. Souvaine countered that it was "happy" Disney had finally seen fit to bring the squabble to a head. Said President Henry Souvaine (TIME, March 12): "The time has arrived for a properly constituted court of law to determine the legality or illegality of Mr. Disney's efforts over many years to destroy Mr. Bunin's property...
...group teaching insist that it can be highly successful, especially with students of no especial academic brilliance who are often uneasy in individual tutorial meetings. . . . The teacher's job, however, increases in proportion to the size of the group. He must be able to draw out the inarticulate, restrain the more talkative, and keep the discussion within useful channels. The consensus seems to be that five is a suitable number for good group discussions...
...responsibility. Competitive or not, all newspapers must be more responsible than they are, must "demonstrate by their daily performance that they deserve their freedom . . . We must show that we understand that the basic reason for a free press is to have and preserve a free society." Editors should restrain themselves from "whipping the public into a frenzy with cartoons, news stories and editorials that are so violent as to be almost psychopathic." Example: "The emotional orgy" that some newspapers are "currently stimulating" over General MacArthur...
...anything he pleases without the slightest interference from his Commander in Chief. Does the same thing apply to General Whitney? That seems to be the case, cracked Harry Truman, with a look of mock despair. He has strings he could pull to restrain both generals, said the President, but he isn't going to use them...