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...underlying principle to remember in considering the subject is the duty of the citizen to cooperate in government. He has no option to say, "I do not approve of this Grand Jury or that Congressional Committee; I dislike its members and its objectives; therefore I will not tell it what I know." He is neither wise nor legally justified in attempting political protest by standing silent when obligated to speak. The citizen is ordinarily required, when summoned, to give testimony to a court, legislative committee or other body vested with subpoena power, and if he refuses...
...named Asa Thomas, has decided to sell. Foreign bidders, said Owner Thomas, have long tempted him with offers, one for ?12,000 ($33,600), but he much preferred to sell to the Tate. He set a rock-bottom Tate price of ?7,500, gave the gallery a three-month option to raise the money. Tate trustees looked hard at their treasury. They could put up ?2,000 toward the price, they decided, but would have to call on the public for the remaining ?5,500. Out went the Tate's call for help: "We therefore appeal urgently, and after...
...Comet jet liners from Britain's De Havilland Co. at an estimated cost of $6,300,000, they are the first foreign planes, according to the Air Transport Association, ever ordered by a U.S. line. Pan Am, which expects to get the planes in 1956, also has an option to purchase seven more for delivery in 1957. As a warning to U.S. planemakers, Pan Am's President Juan Trippe added: the deal with De Havilland would "permit the acquisition of a fleet . . . [for] principal trade routes abroad if suitable American-manufactured jet transports were not available by that...
...Workers have option of leaving the union. 34. What college professor, mistakenly banned from foreign travel, charged: "This incident. . . discloses how close we are to ... government-by-informer...
...Iron & Steel had sold scarce steel to a pocket corporation which had in turn resold it in Chicago's grey market for $75,000 profit. Said he: "[The sale] was simply a payoff, and somebody made $75,000 for doing nothing." Control of the corporation was held in option by Lawyer Rosenbaum, who denied the charges, and by ex-RFC Employee E. Merl Young. His wife, a White House secretary, was given a mink coat for which Rosenbaum paid the bill...