Word: warren
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...court rejected as unconstitutional the McCarran provision that any Communist Party member is ipso facto denied the right to work in defense plants. "For almost two centuries our country has taken singular pride in the democratic ideals enshrined in its Constitution," said Chief Justice Earl Warren, who delivered the majority opinion. "It would indeed be ironic if, in the name of national defense, we would sanction the subversion of one of those liberties-the freedom of association-which makes the defense of the nation worthwhile...
...Warren made it clear the court was not advocating that the doors of defense industries be thrown open to subversives. "Nothing we hold today," he said, "should be read to deny Congress the power under narrowly drawn legislation to keep from sensitive positions in defense facilities those who would use their positions to disrupt the nation's production facilities." What the court objected to, he added, was the wording of the McCarran act, which is so vague and broad that it "quite literally establishes guilt by association alone." The Congress undoubtedly will take the hint and pass substitute legislation...
...YORK, Dec. 19-Edwin O. Reischauer, University Professor, and Oscar Handlin, Charles Warren Professor, of American History, are among 14 Asia scholars who have signed a moderate Vietnam statement under the auspices of the Freedom House Public Affairs Institute...
...word privacy did not appear in legal literature until 1890, when Warren and Brandeis discussed it. There is nothing said about privacy in the United States Constitution...
...classes, honking at his ambulatory alligators, roughing up his guests with show-off fisticuffs, show-off opera arias, show-off opinions. Singer Tommy Steele as the young family butler does his frenetic best with body English and music-hall mugging to get things off dead center, and Lesley Ann Warren does her maidenly best as Daughter Cordelia having a romance with Angier Duke (John Davidson). But the only bright spots in this Philadelphia story are provided by the English elegance of Gladys Cooper and Greer Garson in their pre-World War I costumes, and the American elegance of a really...