Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...life of a literary man who has achieved success," observed Somerset Maugham in the Atlantic, "is not as a rule interesting . . . His profession obliges him to devote a certain number of hours a day to his work...
...Supreme Court closed its term this week, it refused (over the protests of four Justices) to rule on the constitutionality of one hotly argued provision of the Taft-Hartley law. The law, said Justice Stanley Reed, did not specifically prohibit political opinions in union newspapers. Then the court, in a unanimous decision, threw out an indictment against the C.I.O., which campaigned successfully in its News for a Democratic candidate in a Baltimore election last summer. Still unanswered by the court was the larger question: Can unions legally contribute funds directly to a political campaign...
...negotiations got nowhere. One obstacle: the Dutch demanded immediate disbanding of the Republican army; the republic insisted that it must keep a defense army until the Dutch have agreed to a plan for local self-rule. The Dutch accused the Javanese Republican leaders of designs on all of Indonesia; Republican leaders accused the Dutch of trying to restore colonial rule...
Stalling? Republican leaders suspected that the Dutch were stalling to avoid any kind of settlement. In their "police action" last summer, Dutch troops seized the biggest towns and richest lands of Java, deprived the republic of rule over two-thirds of Java, parts of Sumatra and all of Madura. Meanwhile the Dutch have maintained a naval blockade of the Republican area. Republican leaders suspected a Dutch scheme to whittle down the republic's size and staying power until they could impose their rule throughout Indonesia, through Dutch-controlled governments. One measure of their good faith would be the speed...
...Golden Rule. In Chicago, Alma Linquest and husband Harold, a Bible student, finally patched things up in court after a month's separation: she agreed to attend church and he agreed to take her to a movie a week...