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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ragtime pianist at the Copley Plaza (now the oft-mentioned Sheraton Plaza) and Brae Burn Country Club, graduated in 1929 and landed a job with a Boston broker at $20 a week just before the great crash. After the crash, came the 1933 Federal Securities Act, which was "written by lawyers for lawyers, and I didn't even know what a lot of the words meant." Fox therefore enrolled in Harvard Law School, skipped most classes but made a deal with some "greasy grinds" to rent their notebooks at $10 a weekend, passed his examinations and was admitted...
...made to work. Foot strolled unarmed through the tense Turkish quarter of Nicosia, appealing in person to startled Turk Cypriot shopkeepers and stallholders for calm. And to show the Greeks how ready he was to negotiate, Foot released the text of a secret offer that he had written last April to Colonel George Grivas, leader of the Greek Cypriot terrorist organization EOKA: "I am prepared to go any place at any time you nominate to meet you. I would come alone and unarmed and would give you my word that for that day you would be in no danger...
...ground of "beliefs" or "associations." The court thus overturned the findings of lower courts that Secretary Dulles was justified in denying passports to New York Artist Rockwell Kent and Los Angeles Psychiatrist Walter Briehl in 1955, when they refused to sign non-Communist affidavits. Net of the majority opinion, written by Justice William O. Douglas, with Chief Justice Earl Warren, Justices Felix Frankfurter, Hugo Black, William Brennan concurring: passport legislation, jelling into the Passport Acts of 1926 and 1952, authorized the Secretary to deny passports in peacetime only to 1) noncitizens, 2) citizens engaged in illegal activity...
...sharp dissent, written by Justice Tom Clark, concurred in by Justices Harold Burton, John Marshall Harlan, Charles E. Whittaker: 1) the Secretary of State is authorized by precedents reaching back to 1856 to preside over passports, period-and never more so than in times of national emergency, and that 2) President Truman's declaration of national emergency, proclaimed in 1950, is still in specific effect, thereby giving the Secretary of State wider discretion over passports...
Wearily, Serling set to work on a new script. He had been through all this before. In 1956, for the U.S. Steel Hour, he had written another play that roughly paralleled the Till tragedy and watched disgustedly as it changed by sponsor's edict. His summary: "Every word of dialogue that might be remotely 'Southern' in context was deleted or altered. A geographical change was made to a New England town. When it was ultimately produced, its thesis had been diluted, and my characters had mounted a soapbox to shout something that had become too vague...