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...killed more than two years before I became a judge. Many years after I had gone on the bench, someone, whether an Alabamian or not I have no means of knowing, threw red paint and garbage on our son's grave. Whoever committed such an atrocity must have been mentally ill. Certainly, it should not be charged to my fellow Alabamians, the overwhelming majority of whom are as fine, decent, and fair-minded people as can be found anywhere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 11, 1964 | 12/11/1964 | See Source »

...stripping the Fifth of moderate judges. As the new circuit court is set up, it would get Texas' Brown and Louisiana's Wisdom, leaving the Fifth with only Rives and Tuttle as moderates, and Tuttle would soon be succeeded as chief judge by the traditionalist Alabamian Gewin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Courts: The Fascinating & Frenetic Fifth | 12/4/1964 | See Source »

...boundless energy who plays ferocious tennis almost every day, sometimes four hours at a time. His blue-green eyes sparkle with the light of a mind still aggressive in the pursuit of learning. No other Justice has less formal education; yet none is more widely read than the libertarian Alabamian who deprecates himself as "a rather backward country fellow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Supreme Court: The Limits That Create Liberty & The Liberty That Creates Limits | 10/9/1964 | See Source »

...city's Fifth District, home of 80% of Baltimore's 90,000 Jews, gave Brewster 39,000 votes, Wallace 9,000. The lopsided results were much the same in black Baltimore. In 17 Negro precincts, Wallace got not a single ballot. Eighty-seven Negro boxes gave the Alabamian fewer than six votes per precinct against a total of 18,765 for Brewster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: More About the Backlash | 5/29/1964 | See Source »

...adopted Alabamian of ten years, I hardly recognized your description of the beautiful state of Alabama, created by God just as the other 49. We as a nation build on our past heritage, and we as Alabamians have contributed our share of educators, statesmen and N.A.A.C.P. leaders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 4, 1963 | 10/4/1963 | See Source »

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