Word: upon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...court-martial (TIME, July 1). The Supreme Court cut through the on-duty, off-duty argument, simply ruled that the Administration had discretionary authority to waive jurisdiction at will, because the agreement with Japan was legally drawn, and nothing in the Constitution or the public law infringes upon it. "The wisdom of the arrangement," said the court, "is exclusively for the determination of the Executive and Legislative Branches...
...poultry-inspection law. (Probable losses: school aid, statehood for Hawaii and Alaska, a postal increase and U.S. membership in the world-trade fostering Organization for Trade Cooperation.) "Of course," explained the majority leader, "we will not satisfy everybody. No legislative body in the world could possibly act upon all the items which everyone considers urgent and pressing...
...aspect of the Watkins decision applied to the Peck case, and went on to newer ground. By asking Peck to reveal associations "remote in time," Youngdahl ruled, the Senate subcommittee invaded "freedoms of privacy, thought and association" protected by the First Amendment. A congressional investigation, he declared, may infringe upon an individual's constitutional rights "only when the national interest clearly justifies such drastic action...
...passing, Judge Youngdahl dropped a dictum that just about seemed to bar congressional investigating committees from questioning newsmen at all. "To inhibit the freedom of thought and association of newspapermen," he said, "is to infringe upon the freedom of the press...
...before, it would soon be in full throat, making his demands known around the world. A top-level U.S. expert says: "Khrushchev has won, but the results will be catastrophic for him. He is now almost alone. Mikoyan will always leap to the winning side, and cannot be depended upon. The only first-rate man left on Khrushchev's side is Zhukov." Many felt that there was an advantage in the fact that Khrushchev was no ideologist, no man of theory, but a pragmatist, and that his pragmatism would lead him into blunders, or against his will into making...