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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Among the most important decisions expected are those on civil rights and interpretation of the fourteenth amendment. At the time of its adjournment in June, the court had not acted on the Henderson case involving segregation on southern railroads, or the disputes concerning segregation in southern universities. The Henderson appeal came up from the Baltimore Federal District Court which ruled that, since there was no evidence of inequality, Henderson, a negro, failed to show where his rights as a citizen were abridged. Thus, the Supreme Court must decide whether, as Henderson alleges, "inequality always accompanies segregation...
...these clouds gathered, and by their darkness showed grave indeed might be the consequence, should the factions among the multitude prevail when the two contestants, each a champion himself, met on the field of challenge...
...there were dwelling among the multitudes some who favored the one contestant, some who favored the other; these harangued and spoke querulously to one another, maintaining the worthiness of their choices, so that the whole of the multitude seemed riven by this controversy, and within the space of but two days the sky was darkened by the gloomy clouds of faction...
...Devaluation is the most obvious way of attacking the British problem," Professor Williams says. "But no program for stopping Britain's loss of reserves and correcting her dollar deficit will carry conviction unless the right foundation in British policy is laid for offsetting certain dangers." Among the dangers the professor fears are (first) the possible upward spiral of British prices and wages and (second) poor management in the repayment of Britain's wartime sterling liabilities which might thus result in the funnelling up ECA aid through the British economy to outside recipients...
...social walfare state. While he does not complain that British nationalization as such holds back production and productivity, Professor Williams believes both sides of the British socialist budget are to high. "Taxes, always essentially restrictive, have been raised so high as to dry up saving and destroy incentives among workers producers, and investors...