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...Supreme Court upset the ruling. In 1957 the U.S. Court of Appeals bounced out a similar ruling. But in Washington last week the Court of Appeals finally upheld the Subversive Activities Control Board, 2 to 1. "The preponderance of all the evidence," wrote Chief Judge E. Barrett Prettyman, is that the Communist Party of the U.S. follows the "program and policy of the Communist Party abroad...
...majority, Justices E. Barrett Prettyman and James M. Proctor, conceded that Miss Bailey had been caught up in "harsh rules which run counter to every known precept of fairness to the private individual." But they decided that possible injury to her was not the central issue: "We do not think that the individual rights guaranteed by the Constitution necessarily mean that a Government dedicated to those rights cannot preserve itself in the world as it is." Anyway, the Constitution was not involved, since no one has a constitutional right to a Government job. "If [the President] thinks that under present...
Justices Henry W. Edgerton and E. Barrett Prettyman said they found no doubt of Curley's guilt but that even if they saw any doubt they would not be justified in overturning the jury's verdict. They upheld the lower court's refusal to direct an acquittal, which was the principal point attacked in the appeal...
They called his Negro valet. Big Arthur Prettyman, veteran of 20 years in the Navy, was accustomed to helping the crippled President around. With the help of "Joe," a Filipino mess boy, he lifted the unconscious man in his arms and carried him into the bedroom...
Fala, Franklin Roosevelt's shaggy black Scotty and near-constant companion, rode his master's funeral train from Warm Springs to Washington, was exercised at station stops by U.S. Navy Chief Petty Officer Arthur Prettyman, Mr. Roosevelt's genial valet (see cut). Five-year-old Fala attended the Hyde Park burial services with his former mistress, the President's cousin Margaret Suckley (who has taken him back), cowered and whimpered at the gun salute, rolled over on the grass (the President's favorite Fala trick) during the hymn. In spite of barking furiously...