Word: subpoenaing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...high in a period of business recovery. To make up for that, corporations should be willing to absorb part of any climb in labor costs. A POLICING BOARD. A review board would police the guidelines. It would have legal power to investigate any wage or price increase; it could subpoena company records and compel union chiefs and corporate executives to testify before the board. Occasionally, it might make an example out of penny-ante violations of the guidelines-say, an egregious price increase by a bakery that, while relatively small, had a local monopoly of bread sales...
...Ervin is also concerned about the increasing use of false press credentials by Government investigators and about the number of subpoenas on journalists by grand juries and congressional committees. He will watch closely how the Supreme Court rules on three pending subpoena cases in which the Justice Department is seeking to force reporters to reveal confidential sources for stories. Times Reporter Earl Caldwell and Newsman Paul Pappas of WTEV in New Bedford, Mass., refused to discuss Black Panther activities for grand juries, and Reporter Paul Branzburg of the Louisville Courier-Journal balked at identifying, for yet another grand jury, marijuana...
...second subpoena came on the heels of a ruling Monday by federal judge W. Arthur Garrity ordering Leonard Rodberg, an administrative aid to Sen. Mike Gravel, (D-Ala.) and Richard Falk, Milbank Professor of International Law at Princeton, to testify before the jury...
William P. Homans Jr., Popkin's lawyer, last night suggested an additional rationale for the second subpoena: following the ruling on Rodberg and Falk, the government can now proceed undaunted in its efforts to widen the jury's scope and power...
...last night, Popkin apparently had not decided how he would treat the grand jury subpoena...