Word: vinson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This week, in its final "decision Monday" of the session, the Supreme Court upheld the conspiracy conviction of the eleven top U.S. Communists. The vote was 6 to 2. Chief Justice Vinson, in his 7,700-word majority opinion, called the Communist conspiracy a "clear and present danger...
Justice Holmes's famed dictum, that free speech is hazardous only when such a danger exists, "cannot mean that before the Government may act, it must wait until the Putsch is about to be executed, the plans have been laid and the signal is awaited," said Vinson...
Upholding for the first time the constitutionality of the 1940 Smith Act, Justice Vinson held: "An attempt to overthrow the Government by force, even though doomed from the outset because of inadequate numbers of power of the revolutionists, is a sufficient evil for the Congress to prevent...
...reminder came from Georgia's crusty Democrat Carl Vinson, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee. Earlier this year, Vinson heard that the Defense Department was seeking to lease two luxurious Washington apartment houses. He rushed through a bill providing that armed forces' real-estate transactions involving $10,000 or more must be cleared with the House and the Senate Armed Services Committees. The President vetoed it: the bill would cause delays, he said, and it was another case of legislative interference with the executive...
...Vinson, who does more to push through the Administration's military bills than any other man, got his dander up. "You might pick up the paper tomorrow morning and find where the Army had taken over the Statler Hotel," he told the House. "Your responsibility as it stands today would be merely to foot the bill . . . It is the people's money that you are spending . . . This bill is where you can save millions of dollars." Vinson quoted from the 1944 report of the Truman Investigating Committee, which raised hob about the Army's hotel leases...