Word: ross
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...August 27, Postmaster General Arthur J. Summerfield's department issued a withhold-from-dispatch order to prevent Harrison from distributing his magazine to news dealers through the mails. He and his two lawyers, Edward Bennett Williams and Daniel Ross, immediately started a civil action against Summerfield, claiming the order was a "clear violation of the Constitution." They were right. On October 7, District Judge Luther W. Youngdahl ordered the Post Office to rescind its order...
...Lawyer Ross described two pictures in the November issue of the magazine, published at the beginning of September, which the Post Office called indecent. "We had a picture of some show-girls dancing around in panties," he said. "The officials didn't even say this was obscene--just racy. Then there was another picture of Terry Moore which they also described as racy...
Williams and Ross based their case on two points: a withholding order had been issued with-out hearing and on the complaints of unnamed informants. The order, they claimed, violated the Fifth Amendment's guarantee of due process of law and the First Amendment's guarantee of freedom of speech. By the time the case came to court, the November issue had already been sent...
Married. Oscar Ross Ewing, 66, Federal Security administrator (1947-52) who helped lead President Truman's unsuccessful fight for a compulsory national health insurance bill; and Mrs. Mary Whiting Thomas, 49; in Durham...
AIRLINE SUBSIDIES next year will be even less than originally planned, says CAB Chairman Ross Rizley. U.S. airlines are doing so well that payments will be cut another 13% from the first $52.5 million estimate, be pegged at $48.5 million, with the biggest chunk ($24 million) going to 13 domestic local service carriers...