Word: suppressions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...three cases produced 14 opinions-a sure sign of how intensely the Justices had wrestled with their constitutional duty to guard freedom of speech and press even as they sought a way to suppress the smut before them. In hot dissent, Justices Hugo Black and " William O. Douglas urged the court for the umpteenth time to quit all censorship on the ground that the First Amendment protects all expression, including obscenity, that does not actually incite antisocial conduct. "Sex is a fact of life," declared the 80-year-old Black. "I find it difficult to see how talk about...
...Dubious Claims." Garfinckel's management filed an antitrust suit in Federal Court in Washington, charging that a Genesco takeover would suppress or reduce competition among clothing and retail shops in New York, Washington and other cities. Garfinckel's asked for treble damages for the $500,000 it claimed it had already lost in business and property value because of Jarman's takeover efforts...
...last year in getting aluminum price increases rescinded has never been fully explained. The predictable White House rejoinder is that the President doesn't want to lose the support of the business community. But President Kennedy, in greater need of additional support than Johnson has ever been, did not suppress a blow-by-blow account of his 1962 fight with Roger Blough over steel prices...
Counsel Patrick Hallinan, at club headquarters in San Francisco, denied that the clubs were either Communist-led or organized, calling the Justice Department's citation "part and parcel of the policies of the Johnson Administration to suppress and silence critics of its dirty little war in Viet Nam." That at least was a new refrain for the old unchanging tune...
...them to give the moderates their day. When the Rhodesia question at last came before the conference, the resolution that succeeded was not Algeria's-which called for a guerrilla war against Rhodesia-but a more orthodox measure calling on Great Britain to use force if necessary to suppress the Rhodesian rebellion...