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Contrary to the temper of the times, wrote Federal Judge Leon Yankwich in a 1938 law-review article, Johnson refused to "sanction extreme measures against the defeated South." A flood of congressional resentment finally broke over him in 1868 after he tried to fire Edwin Stanton, Secretary of War and hard-line Reconstructionist, who had become an angry Johnson...
...like one, or refuses to say whether he is or isn't one. But when Cole's suit came before a federal jury in Los Angeles last month, the trial turned into nothing more than a legal test of MGM's morals clause. Judge Leon R. Yankwich, charged MGM, had made a cocktail-party observation that all of the accused should be rehired. Judge Yankwich denied it, refused to disqualify himself. In the trial he made it clear that, so far as he was concerned, Communism was not an issue in the case...
...jury to consider only four questions. Did Cole's defiance of Congress bring him into "public hatred"? Did he "offend" the public? Did he "prejudice" his employers? Did M-G-M forfeit the right to break his contract because it waited a full month to fire him? Said Yankwich: "If the studio knew, when Cole came back from Washington, what his conduct had been there and nevertheless continued to reimburse him, then I instruct you that M-G-M then waived its right to take action against...
After only four hours of deliberation the jury brought out its answers: no to the first three questions, yes to the last. Judge Yankwich ordered M-G-M to put Cole back on its payroll and fork over $74,250 in back salary. M-G-M lawyers, who argued that the judge's instructions amounted to a directed verdict for Writer Cole, got ready to take the case to the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals...
...Doctrine of the Immaculate Conception concerns the conception of the Virgin Mary free from original sin, was confused by witness and Judge Yankwich with the unrelated Article of Faith concerning the Virgin Birth of Jesus Christ...