Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Some of the Supreme Court's language gave color to the idea that the court was reaching beyond a rule of law in an attempt to set a pattern of social behavior. The majority opinion, written by Justice John Marshall Harlan, favorably quoted Harvard Law Dean Erwin Griswold, a leading advocate of the anything-goes school of Fifth Amendment pleading. And a concurring opinion by Justice Hugo Black (with Chief Justice Earl Warren and Justices William Douglas and William J. Brennan) argued that the use of the Fifth Amendment should neither "discredit" nor "convict" any person...
Higher than Jail? If the Supreme Court was in fact trying to tell the U.S. public how it should react toward Fifth Amendment pleaders, then the court had overstepped its legal province to become a social arbiter. While generally approving the decision, Reston's own Times felt bound to point out editorially: "A banker who invokes the Fifth Amendment when charged with embezzlement will scarcely retain the confidence of his depositors. Labor organizations need not continue to support a labor leader who invokes the Fifth Amendment or any other amendment to avoid accounting for union funds...
Personality. Anderson combines an easy grin and mild manner with businesslike drive and savvy, has little time for the social circuit, plenty of time for such interests as the Boy Scouts. Stricken with polio at three, he still walks with a slight limp that keeps him out of active sports and kept him out of service in World War II. Uncomfortable about missing military service, he once said, holding a forefinger a quarter-inch above his desk top: "When it comes to measuring who has given up most for his country. I measure about this high...
...caught up in the Communist confession mills have a fair idea of what to expect these days. As long ago as 1940, Budapest-born Arthur Koestler in his novel Darkness at Noon explained something of the techniques used. Thus, when onetime Hungarian Cultural Attaché Paul Ignotus, an active Social Democrat who had read his Koestler, returned to Budapest from Britain to see his ailing father in 1949, he knew the danger he risked. Picked up by the AVO security police a few days after his father's funeral, he was not altogether surprised to find himself...
...hope of freedom. But then, as he had reached "the limit of human endurance," the incredible happened. Russia's Bulganin and Khrushchev, planning to visit Britain and not wishing to be embarrassed by British labor leaders' demands for the release of a long list of jailed Social Democrats, ordered Ignotus, among others, set free. Paul and Florence met for the first time. She, at 33, was somewhat recovered from her prison experience; he, at 56, accustomed to long sessions "at the cinema," was hollow-cheeked and scraggy-necked, with bowed shoulders, but with a jutting chin...