Word: allenated
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Local Precedent. Ironically, the decision was handed down in the case of a white defendant convicted by an all-white jury in Americus, the county seat. Arrested during civil rights demonstrations there last August, Ralph W. Allen, a student from Connecticut's Trinity College, was first charged with inciting an insurrection, a capital offense in Georgia. But before Allen could be tried, the state's insurrection law was held unconstitutional by a federal court (TIME, Nov. 8). On the testimony of an Americus policeman who claimed that Allen threw a bottle at him, the 22-year-old civil...
...appeals court's opinion upholding Allen did not rest entirely on the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which has long been held to bar racial discrimination in jury selection. Nor did it rely on the now familiar civil rights argument that a white man who came to the South to register Negro voters might get something other than dispassionate justice from an all-white Southern jury. This time the court also invoked Georgia precedent. Since 1882, it has been a felony in that state to exclude citizens from jury duty on the basis of "race, color, or previous...
Every storefront but one, that is. It was the Uhler-Phillips department store, and, as William Allen White wrote years later, "when the reporters asked about it, they heard one of those stories about a primrose detour from Main Street." According to the gossip, Nominee Harding, long since married to a domineering, unattractive woman, had been treading the primrose path with Mrs. Carrie Phillips, wife of one of the owners of the store. She was a tall, willowy redhead, the best-looking woman in town, and about a dozen years Harding's junior-but the less said about...
CONSTITUTIONAL LAW How to Change Laws You Don't Like "It is the law," said Louisiana's Democratic Senator Allen J. Ellender of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 that he had opposed so stubbornly. Any Southern resistance. Ellender warned, "must be within the framework of the orderly processes established by law." Any other course "is foolhardy and indefensible," including the doctrine of civil disobedience, which has "no more credence now than it did before...
...give to the poor-though the poor slobs who can't share the fun without buying a ticket may wonder whether it isn't the other way around. The actors snap, their fingers at the plot, and Bing Crosby pops in from time to time as one Allen A. Dale, who reforms a roomful of rowdy orphans with a song called Don't Be a Do-Badder. The rest of the film runs to self-parody, augmented by boyish enthusiasm for booze, broads, violence and bad grammar. Though 7 Hoods offers negligible entertainment value, it does provide...