Word: rosenberger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Monday, the last day of judgment before the U.S. Supreme Court recessed for summer vacation. It was also, or so it seemed, the last hope before the bar of justice for Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. For the sixth time, the mousy little engineer and his wife, waiting in Sing Sing's death house, had petitioned the highest tribunal, this time for a stay of execution and review of their trial. For the sixth time, a majority of the nine Justices rejected a Rosenberg appeal...
Across town at the White House gate, hundreds of picketers marched with pro-Rosenberg placards; opposing demonstrators carried signs that read "Kill the Dirty Spies." A stream of mail from every quarter of the globe flowed to the President's desk. The Red campaign to "save the Rosenbergs" may have inspired the pleas, but many of them came from non-Communist clergymen and scientists, from liberals and humanitarians, from those who thought it bad politics to let the Communists have "martyrs" for their propaganda. At the focus of pressure, Dwight Eisenhower did not flinch...
Fyke Farmer, far less pyrotechnical than Marshall, stuck safely to his argument that the Rosenbergs were sentenced under the wrong law. Chief Rosenberg Counsel Manny Bloch was needled by the bench for his belated urging of Farmer's new point of law. "I now adopt it as my own." he said, but he wanted at least a month to prepare adequate argument...
...Seventh Decision. Next day (noon Friday) Chief Justice Vinson read the majority decision, the court's seventh action on the Rosenberg case. "We think further proceedings ... are unwarranted. A conspiracy was charged and proved . . . the Atomic Energy Act [of 1946] did not repeal or limit the provisions of the Espionage Act [of 1917]. Accordingly, we vacate the stay entered by Mr. Justice Douglas ..." Concurring with Vinson, were: Associate Justices Harold Burton, Tom Clark, Robert Jackson, Sherman Minton, Stanley Reed. Against were Justices Douglas and Hugo Black. Justice Felix Frankfurter could not make up his mind...
...York, Federal Judge Sylvester Ryan gave a five-year prison sentence to lanky William Perl (TIME, June 1), 34-year-old jet-propulsion expert and onetime classmate (Manhattan's City College) of Atom Spies Julius Rosenberg and Morton Sobell. It was "abundantly established," said Judge Ryan, that Perl had deliberately lied when he told a federal grand jury that he did not know Rosenberg or Sobell...