Word: actes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...miscarriage of justice as I know of." The grand jury's failure to return indictments for the Negro's murder showed the need for a new federal "criminal statute" to protect civil rights. "The nation will be shocked at the State of Mississippi's refusal to act," said he, when the U.S. presents its case before a federal grand jury in Biloxi next month...
Already pressing voter-registration suits against Alabama, Georgia and Louisiana, the Justice Department last week set out for the first time to uphold the right of a Negro to vote in a local election. Moving under the Civil Rights Act of 1957, the U.S. filed suit in Memphis federal court challenging a hoary custom of white Democrats in solidly Democratic Fayette County, Tenn.-the no-Negroes Democratic primary election conducted a year before each general election. Since in Fayette County the primary is the only real contest, the U.S. argued that Negroes are disfranchised by being barred...
...necessary evolution of his office, and of his competence to take actions "with the consent or at the invitation of governments concerned, but without formal decisions of other organs of the U.N." His authority he finds in Article 99 of the Charter, which empowers the Secretary-General to act in any situation that "may threaten the maintenance of international peace and security." But his real authority consists in having established a reputation for scrupulous moderation and impartiality in enlarging the role of his office...
Adultery should be a criminal offense, the Archbishop of Canterbury told the Canterbury Diocesan Conference in London last week. Although it is a "private act" and has never been a legal crime in England,-Dr. Fisher felt that because of the "tremendous damage" it causes in terms of broken homes and unhappy children, adultery should be punishable by more than mere church censure...
...loan program, one of the glories of last year's National Defense Education Act, encourages needy potential schoolteachers and superior students of science and language. This year the Government is lending $30 million to 1,365 schools (which add $1 for every $9 of U.S. money) to aid about 120,000 students. The trouble is one small clause: every borrower must not only 1) swear allegiance to the U.S., but 2) file an affidavit that he "does not believe in, and is not a member of and does not support any organization that believes in or teaches, the overthrow...