Word: subpoena
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...issue is whether the committee uses its powers as an investigating body to silence critics--as Wilkinson's defense claims. Apologists for the majority's decision insist that it does not give the committee authority to subpoena and humiliate anyone who publicly attacks its actions; the argument runs that the Court has merely found in this instance that the questions asked Wilkinson were legitimate and pertinent to its Atlanta investigations, bearing no relations to the man's hostility towards the committee. Reasonable as the apologists sound, they are blind to what Douglas and Black see: that a majority...
Certainly if--as Stewart says--there is reasonable belief that someone can give information to a committee, then the fact that he is also an opponent of the committee should not excuse him from being questioned. But surely the burden of showing reasonable grounds for a subpoena rests on the committee's shoulders. In this case, it has only the word of a paid informant that Wilkinson is a communist and might know something about Reds in the South. Black points out that the House committee has never had much trouble finding paid informants willing to call anybody a communist...
...Reporter article also named Fulton ("Buddy") Lewis III as one of the House Un-American Activties Committee staff members who collected newsreel films by subpoena from West Coast television stations
Lawyers for the N.A.A.C.P. quickly secured a federal court order summoning Governor Davis to defend his action in a hearing this week. Just as quickly, the Governor decided to go catfishing, well out of subpoena range. Unable to track him down, U.S. deputy marshals lamely delivered three summonses: two left at Davis' office and one dropped at the feet of a state trooper who answered the door at the Governor's mansion...
...logic took a back seat as Jack's friends came forward. Joe Louis, a well-wisher at Teamster Boss Jimmy Hoffa's bribery trial in 1957, turned up amid popping flashbulbs to say a showy hello. Mayor Robert F. Wagner, appearing under subpoena, marched to the defense table, pumped Jack's hand and lauded Jack as "a conscientious public servant." His Honor was echoed by such Democratic bigwigs as Comptroller Lawrence E. Gerosa, Brooklyn Borough President John Cashmore, City Council President Abe Stark and Queens Borough President John T. Clancy, who boomed "Hi, kid," as he grabbed...