Word: subpoenae
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...acted in response to the urging of Richard Nixon's aides in effectively aborting an early investigation, in 1972, by Texas Congressman Wright Patman's Banking Committee into the Watergate bugging-burglary. Ford has readily conceded that he did help persuade Republicans on the committee to deny subpoena power for the planned investigation, thereby crippling it. But he denied at his vice-presidential confirmation hearings in 1973 that he had acted under White House direction. Even if he had, it would have been routine and reasonable for Ford, who was House Republican leader at the time...
These men, who had written Pride of the Marines, Objective Burma. Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo and Destination Tokyo had now become the enemy themselves. In the Halpern film, only Dalton Trumbo explains the awful terror that came with the subpoena, the process of "getting ready to become nobody." Halpern shows the progressive effect of pressure and time on the writers. They age, dry up, crease and sag--but those with spirit make their physicality irrelevant. The polar two in the film are Trumbo and Edward Dmytryk...
...faith that the Declaration of Independence places in ordinary citizens. For him, "the most moving scene" occurred when Watergate grand jurors-"a fair cross section of men and women, black and white"-were polled one at a time by Judge John J. Sirica about whether they wished to subpoena the taped conversations of President Nixon. "I wondered whether they would stand firm. Each one did. Now suppose Roger Sherman had walked into that courtroom at that time. Would he not have said, 'This is just the way it should happen. Here are the representatives of the people...
...controversial Republican holdover (TIME, Jan. 5). Nadjari then disclosed that he had been investigating Cunningham on suspicion of peddling judgeships in exchange for payoffs. The special prosecutor in effect accused Carey of attempting to fire him in order to shield Cunningham. Now Cunningham is strenuously fighting a grand jury subpoena, and Carey has ordered an investigation into the allegation that he himself was covering up for the chairman. Meanwhile, the state Democratic Party's morale and fund raising are seriously sagging...
...invitations came in the form of a subpoena, and the party itself took place in an abandoned Los Angeles jail. Guests included Performers Charles Bronson, Jill Ireland and Jacqueline Bisset, who were frisked, photographed and fingerprinted at the door. The mock lockup was all in honor of Author Truman Capote, who is currently in Hollywood portraying a criminologist who becomes a victim in Murder By Death, his first movie as an actor instead of a screenwriter. Capote allowed as how a night in the slammer was welcome respite from his daytime job. "Making movies is hard work," burbled Truman. "They...