Word: scalese
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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But not all of them. Last week the court let stand the 1955 conviction of Junius Irving Scales, onetime Communist chief in the Carolinas, who had been sentenced to six years in prison. It also set aside the five-year sentence of John Francis Noto, chairman of the western New...
Justice John Marshall Harlan, writing for the majority in the Scales case, stated that a Communist may indeed be convicted-but only if he is an "active and purposive" party member. Thus the Justice Department must prove that the individual Communist has demonstrated "specific intent to accomplish overthrow." The job...
Unfortunately, though this concession will give $23 billion to the nation's elementary and secondary schools, it will destroy much of the educational effectiveness of the bill. The Administration's purpose in setting aside the ten per cent was to bring the educational standards of the depressed areas up to...
Plowed Under. The kernel of the New Frontier proposals calls for establishment of a "national farmer advisory committee'' for each farm commodity or group of related commodities. Each committee would draw up a "supply adjustment program" for its commodity, if it took a notion to do so. The...
Tipping Scales. Even without the Congo, the U.N. was in a troubled time. The 16 new African members, besides tipping the weight of the Assembly toward the neutralists, wanted a bigger role in the Security Council, the committees, and the Secretariat as well. "And they don't even have...