Word: case
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Battle. The Senator was the aggressor. He announced at once that he was going to blast Pearson's hide off with a Senate speech the very next day, and he kept jumping up during dinner to repeat the announcement. Finally Pearson asked him how his Wisconsin income-tax case was progressing (the state is ordering McCarthy to explain his nonpayment of last year's taxes). Forthwith the burly Senator grabbed the 6-foot columnist by the neck and invited him outside to fight. Pearson agreed. They were duly separated, but when Pearson went to the cloakroom McCarthy followed...
...soft-drink counter. In New York City, bottled Coca-Cola broke loose from its famous nickel moorings for the first time and went on to 6?. Other cities might have it worse: half of the nation's 6,000 soft-drink bottlers had upped their wholesale case price. Beer also went...
...under which the eleven leaders of the C.P were convicted) makes Communist activities a possible basis for criminal charges, reasoned the court. Therefore, a witness asked to testify about such activities may justifiably enfold himself in the Fifth Amendment, which provides that no one in a criminal case is required to be a witness against himself. As precedent, Justice Black recalled Chief Justice John Marshall's famed ruling in 1807 reaffirming this guarantee of the Fifth Amendment in the Aaron Burr treason trial. From Mr. Burr to Mrs. Blau the constitutional line was clear...
Governor Tom Dewey kept his famous pre-election promise. When failing old (74) Republican Joe Hanley stepped aside last September so that Dewey could run for a third term, Dewey made "an ironclad, unbreakable arrangement" with Hanley to give him a state job in case he failed to win a seat in the U.S. Senate. The "Hanley Letter," in which Joe discussed the deal and his own big debts, was the sensation of the campaign. Last week, Defeated Candidate Joe Hanley, who has lost one eye and is having trouble with the other, got his consolation prize...
Screams of "Nadra!" The Moslems of Singapore (Malays, Pakistanis, Indonesians) had followed the case with mounting religious and racial excitement. Cried Schoolmaster Mansur's enraged kinfolk: "This is a fight between European and Asian!" In the mosques the mullahs spoke of an affront to Islam. Last week the Moslem anger erupted in the most vicious rioting in Singapore memory...