Word: nonsupport
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hattie Mae Johnson is on the County. She has four children and her husband is now in jail for nonsupport, as he was unemployed and was not able to give her any money. Her welfare check is now $286 per month. Last night she went out with the biggest player in town. If she got pregnant, then nine months from now, how much more will her welfare check...
With more fervor than felicity of style, John Roche, the White House's staff intellectual, declared: "The A.D.A. has backed away from the nonsupport of totalitarianism." United Steel workers President I. W. Abel, whose union has been contributing some $10,000 annually to the A.D.A., wired National Chairman John Kenneth Galbraith that the repudiation of Johnson was "unwarranted, unrealistic and shortsighted...
Sonoma County district attorney charged Sorensen with violating a state law that makes willful nonsupport of a legitimate child a misdemeanor. To convict Sorensen, Municipal Court Judge James E. Jones Jr. relied partly on the public policy that "all children born in wedlock are presumed the legitimate issue of the marital partners...
Last week Stewart again dissented when the court refused to review the Connecticut case of John DeJoseph, charged with criminal nonsupport. Two Hartford judges denied DeJoseph's requests for indigent's counsel because the charge was only a misdemeanor; DeJoseph tried to defend himself and went to jail for six months. By contrast, a Connecticut federal court recently freed another man who had been jailed for exactly the same offense, simply because the state failed to tell him that he had a right to a lawyer. Said Stewart: "When the meaning of a fundamental constitutional right depends...
...planned for a Lincoln Day luncheon this week: "Today a tiny proportion of Americans counsel a 'quit-nik' policy. These quitniks have found their voice in a bloc of members of the Democratic Party. At this rate, President Johnson may have to sue his own party for nonsupport...