NOTES IN THE NEWS
The Court Stands Guard Although its decisions frequently fall short of grappling with basic constitutional issues, the United States Supreme Court has once again demonstrated that it is the...
...Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia added a significant postscript when it unanimously set aside the dismissal of the remaining six, holding that the Army had violated its own regulations when it refused to tell the employees why they had been found to be security risks...
...Box score: 33 suspended...
...So had his former partner in the advertising firm of Benton & Bowles, William Benton...
...Acting under the whiplash of the McCarthy hysteria, the Army suspended 33 employees on security grounds...
...Three—By a vote of seven to one (Justice Clark dissenting and Chief Justice Warren abstaining), the Court declared unconstitutional California's procedure for enforcing a state law that requires loyalty oaths to obtain tax exemptions...
...Fort Monmouth Postscript Of all the late Senator Joseph R. McCarthy's many "cases" of subversion in government, none was more celebrated at the time than his charge that the Signal Corps Laboratories at Fort Monmouth, N.J., were "rife with Communists...
...But Bowles, whose kind is urgently needed in public life today, may yet have a chance to make his views heard in Congress...
...Twenty-five were reinstated by the Army after investigation, and two more were restored to their jobs after they had filed suits...
...Before recessing for the summer, the Court three times struck down state and federal action which did violence to our fundamental liberties: One—By a five to four vote, the country's highest tribunal ruled that the Secretary of State had no statutory power to deny a passport to Americans who refuse to answer questions on alleged Communist "beliefs and associations...
...Last month the U.S...
...Said the Court: "Inviolability of privacy in group associations may in many circumstances be indispensable to preservation of freedom of association, particularly where a group espouses dissident beliefs...
...They know how much better the House of Representatives would be for having Chester Bowles in its motley ranks...
...The incumbent Republican, Representative Horace See-ly-Brown, Jr., has served six terms...
...The Court Stands Guard Although its decisions frequently fall short of grappling with basic constitutional issues, the United States Supreme Court has once again demonstrated that it is the nation's guardian of freedom...
...Two—By unanimous vote, the Court voided a $100,000 contempt fine imposed by Alabama on the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People because the NAACP had refused to disclose its membership list in the state...
...He is running for the House of Representatives from his home district...
...ambassador to India, and one of the country's foremost liberal spokesmen, had had his heart set on becoming the Democratic Party's candidate for U.S...
...It is a tough district for a Democrat...
...Bowles for Congress Chester Bowles, former governor of Connecticut, former U.S...
...Although the law itself was left standing, the majority ruled that the enforcement procedure violated the "due process" clause of the Fourteenth Amendment by putting the burden of proof on the taxpayer rather than on the state...
...While the Court did not specifically hold that such questions, if required by Congress, would be clearly unconstitutional, it did note that "we deal here with a constitutional right . . . which we must assume Congress will be faithful to respect...
...33 reinstated...
...Senator from the Nutmeg State...
...Petitioner (the NAACP) has made an uncontroverted showing that on past occasions revelation of the identity of its rank-and-file members has exposed those members to economic reprisal, loss of employment, threat of physical coercion, and other manifestations of public hostility...
...Both would have been first-rate candidates^ both were defeated at the Democratic state convention by a second-rater, former Representative Thomas J. Dodd...
...Countless Americans everywhere will be pulling for Bowles...
Vol. 22 • August 1958 • No. 8
