Word: subpoena
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...save the world." From 1947 to 1953 Hinton lived in China, working first with a Protestant mission under UNRRA supervision, later for the Communists as an agricultural adviser. Since then, he has been touring the U.S. as a free-lance lecturer. Last week Hinton got a letter, enclosing a subpoena, from Indiana's Senator William Jenner. It said: Come to Washington and give the U.S. Senate "the benefit of your experience...
...Novikoff case began innocently enough in March, 1954, when he received a subpoena from the Senate Judiciary Committee headed by William Jenner (Rep.-Ind), then engaged in an investigation of subversives in education...
Shortly after receving the subpoena, Novikoff conferred with the president of the University, Carl W. Borgmann, and the University counsel, and a few days later appeared voluntarily at an informal meeting of the committee, attended by Senator Herman Welker (Rep-Udaho) and committee counsel Robert Morris. After the meeting, Novikoff announced his willingness to go to Washington at his own expense and testify at a public hearing...
Griswold also asserted that "no committee or committee chairman has the power to conduct investigations or subpoena witnesses merely because the chairman is a congressman." He added that because the powers exercised by investigating committees is that of the entire legislative body, the responsibility of investigation should rest with the entire body. "The investigating process is necessarily a corporate process," he said...
...taste of such lawyer-poets as Wallace Stevens and Edgar Lee Masters, exposes them to the theater with Galsworthy's Justice, Elmer Rice's Counsellor-at-Law, and even Gilbert and Sullivan's Trial by Jury ("For today in this arena,/Summoned by a stern subpoena,/Edwin sued by Angelina/Shortly will appear...