Word: voided
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Recently, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled that the state's Sedition Act of 1919 has been rendered void because the federal Smith Act of 1940 covers the same area, and therefore supersedes the state legislation. It is possible that Pennsylvania will appeal to the national Supreme Court, but if the Pennsylvania decision holds, it could mean that anti-subversives legislation in all 48 states will be rendered void...
...Psychiatrists might be better employed playing in the backyard than uttering statements that are absolutely void of making sense to a layman parent...
...tainted newspaper never came out again, but Prouvost's protégé fiery, able Editor Pierre Lazareff, filled the void by starting France-Soir and making it France's biggest daily (TIME, June 23 1947). In 1948 Prouvost launched Match again. For two years it lost money, but gradually he picked up circulation and one of the best staffs in Europe. Now Match, has a well-paid, 120-man editorial staff and charges the highest advertising rate in France: $4,000 for a black and whit page, $5,140 for color. In 1951, still searching...
...District Judge Luther W. Youngdahl's dismissal of the key count in a perjury indictment against the former State Department consultant. Said the court: the charge that Lattimore lied when he told the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee that he was not a "sympathizer" or "promoter" of Communism was "void for vagueness"; the indictment should have defined its terms...
...British, having pulled the rug out from under John Foster Dulles (TIME, May 31), sent Anthony Eden into the void, and praised as "skilled diplomacy" his lunching and dining with the Communists in search of kind words and gentle concessions. Aging Winston Churchill still pined for some grand settlement; his admirers worried that this passion might cause his great career to be darkened in its last days, as Franklin Roosevelt's was by Yalta...