Word: granting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Napthali Lewis of Brooklyn College and his wife both appeared as witnesses before a New York session of the Senate Permanent Investigating sub-committee, of which McCarthy was then the sole member. Several months before, Lewis, a professor of Classical Languages at Brooklyn College, had been awarded a Fulbright grant for study in Italy during the academic year...
...Whitney, Commissioner of Public Safety, who twice refused the Brattle's petition for a Sunday license, the case is also directed against Cambridge City Manager John J. Curry. The judgement of neither man is questioned. At stake is the constitutionality of the rights of the Public Safety Commissioner to grant or refuse Sunday licenses within the Commonwealth...
...grant of $43,800 from the Fund for Advanced Education will finance the College's Advanced Standing in its first year, it was announced yesterday...
...could witnesses be compelled to testify, if the purpose was not to incriminate them but to get information about other Communists and the Communist movement as a whole? The solution: grant the witness immunity from prosecution for anything he might say (if the court decides it is in the public interest), then require him to answer. If he refuses, he can be punished for contempt; if he answers but answers with lies, he will be liable for perjury. This solution was enacted into law by the 83rd Congress. There is still some feeling that the witness-immunity law violates...
...mother's family were prepared to grant him no such laurels. If Vyvyan took a drop too much at a party, he was promptly described in family circles as being "dead drunk." When Vyvyan Holland went to Cambridge-Oxford was out of the question since his father had gone there-his guardian was quick to warn those in charge that he was "idle, drank to excess and frequented bad company." In the years since, Vyvyan Holland has found, befriended and been befriended by many old friends of his father. He has married...