Word: sanctions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Smith denied the plan, without dispelling the impression that he is considering something more or less like it. But before attempting a move, Smith seeks a final sanction in two parliamentary by-elections to be held Oct. 1. These elections are being contested by the new Rhodesia Party. Its founder: Sir Roy Welensky, who is trying to make a political comeback after tending his little vegetable garden outside Salisbury since January...
Faulkner understood not the legal but the human facts. He understood that the crisis between white and black is not only a crisis for the South but for every American, however many miles may separate him from Mississippi. He understood that legal sanction was one thing, but emotional acceptance was another...
...never understood (or anyway portrayed) the urban and educated Negroes that have been the spearhead of the civil rights fight. He saw federal action on civil rights through a haze of fact and legend about the Reconstruction imposed from the North. He never appreciated the imperative need for legal sanction of a Negro's right to sit at a bar, get a haircut, swim in a pool. He only vaguely realized that civil rights legislation provides many a Southerner of good will the excuse to accept-quietly, if not graciously-what cannot be avoided...
...Severe Sanction. Section 6 of the act provided that any member of a Communist-action, Communist-front, or Communist-infiltrated organization who uses a U.S. passport, or even applies for one, is guilty of a felony and punishable by a maximum $10,000 fine and five years in prison. In early 1962, several months after Section 6 became law, the State Department revoked the passports of leading American Communists, including those of Party Chairman Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, 74, and Herbert Aptheker, 48, editor of the Communist monthly Political Affairs. Miss Flynn and Aptheker sued the State Department, charging an unconstitutional...
...Oxford University." So cautious is the court about reversing acts of Congress that it has done so only nine times in the past 28 years. But because Section 6 "sweeps too widely and too indiscriminately across the liberty guaranteed in the Fifth Amendment," the court invoked its most powerful sanction and declared the section unconstitutional...