Word: subpoenae
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...civil-rights bill up in committee, they will probably let Congress get it out of the way early so that the 85th can move on to other business. Most likely form of the legislation: a moderate bill setting up a federal civil-rights commission-but possibly without the subpoena power that the Administration has requested and which congressional Southerners have violently opposed...
...attorney (county prosecutor) has long been unthinkable. Last week the unthinkable happened: Benjamin S. Adamowski, a onetime Democrat who turned Republican in protest against the machine's wide-open rule, was elected Cook County state's attorney, with his own detective force, the power of subpoena-and the personal ability and determination to give the organization some days it will never forget. In an election that saw Republicans carry Cook County for Eisenhower, for U.S. Senator Everett Dirksen and nearly all county offices, Reformer Adamowski's victory was the one that hurt the machine most...
Fees & Figures. Behind Forster, by invitation instead of subpoena, came the New York World Telegram and Sun's Frederick Woltman and American Legionnaire James F. O'Neil to deny they were clearance men. Most breathless witness of the four-day hearing was Vincent Hartnett, 40, author of the unofficial, inexact, who's who of subversion, Red Channels. Hartnett described himself as a "talent consultant," denied Cogley's charge that he was "frankly in the business of exposing people with 'front records' and then, later, of 'clearing' them." But Hartnett admitted that...
...right to fire a staffer when it learns that he has a Communist past? The New York Times thought so last fall when it sacked Jack Shafer, 44, a copyreader on the Times's Foreign Desk. The paper said that it lost confidence in Shafer after a subpoena from Senate investigators prompted him to admit party membership in 1940-41 and again in 1946-48, before he joined the Times. Quick to protest was the Newspaper Guild. Grounds for its protest : the dismissal was without "good and sufficient cause" and thus a violation of its contract with the Times...
...controversial investigation, but by lending the influence and prestige of his office to a high level meeting of moderate Southerners. Eisenhower has widespread popularity and respect which can do much to influence public opinion in the South. The need at present is for an invitation, not a subpoena...