Word: subpoenae
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...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...
...This duty extends to accusations from these unconstitutional investigations," the Lubells noted. "The attack can come either directly, by subpoena, or indirectly, by the public listing of an informer. In either case the moral obligation of the individual in society . . . is clear. . . . We will not cooperate in the de facto nullification of our Constitution and Bill of Rights...
...Subpoenas should not be issued except by the action of the committee as a whole. Terming present practice is respect to the issuing of subpoenas, he said, "There are few ways in which the organized power of the state is brought to bear on a citizen more sharply than through a subpoena to compel testimony. Such a power should not be exercised on the judgment or discretion...
...McCarthy last week provided the vehicle for a significant footnote to the Hiss-Chambers case. Previously, two members of the Washington Communist ring, Nathaniel Weyl and Julian Wadleigh, had corroborated portions of Chambers' accounts of Communist underground activity. Last week, after receiving a subpoena from McCarthy to appear at the Albany hearing, a 44-year-old draftsman named Felix A. Inslerman became-the third...
...association's code would grant the witness the right of counsel, cross-examination of his accusers, and subpoena power for securing witnesses in his behalf. To prevent unfair publicity, the code would force committees to hold back charges until the witness has a chance to answer them, and allow those accused to read explanatory statements into the records. A final check on committee irresponsibility is the code's insistence that each group state the scope of its investigation and then stay within these set limits...