Word: buying
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...company, sticks out his tongue and delivers a loud Bronx cheer. Blackout. In those precarious years, the vicarious thrill of giving a razz to the boss was irresistible-to say nothing of the complex moral that a nobody can suddenly acquire the money that can't buy happiness...
Badges & Incidents. The source of the ruling was something of a surprise-even to the people who brought the case. In 1965, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Lee Jones had tried to buy a $30,000 house in a new St. Louis development. They were refused because Mr. Jones was a Negro; and they sued the developer. In his search for supporting statutes, their lawyer, Samuel Liberman, came across the 1866 act and tossed it into his brief almost as an afterthought. He thought it was good tactics to try everything. "I figured, 'What have we got to lose...
...under the 13th Amendment, which, according to an earlier court decision, had enabled the legislature to abolish "all badges and incidents of slavery." In addition, said Stewart, Congress had not indicated any distinction between private and public acts of discrimination. "So long as a Negro citizen who wants to buy or rent a home can be turned away simply because he is not white, he cannot be said to enjoy 'the same right as is enjoyed by white citizens...
...real significance may only be that new life has been breathed into the 13th Amendment and its accompanying Reconstruction laws, and that the court has enunciated once again the ultimate illegality of racial prejudice. That old law, insisted Justice Stewart, means that Negroes have "the freedom to buy whatever a white man can buy, to live wherever a white man can live. If Congress cannot say that being a free man means at least this much," then ending slavery implied "a promise that the nation cannot keep...
...years ago that the parents of Thomas Mellon, then five years old, sailed from Londonderry for the U.S. To celebrate the anniversary, the family gave $250,000 to the Scotch-Irish Trust of Ulster to buy the old dwelling from its latter-day owner (who had thriftily converted it to a farm building for hay storage and pigs). Then they invited 400 guests, including Northern Ireland's Prime Minister Terence O'Neill, to a gala housewarming. The natives were delighted. Long envious of the outpouring of American sentimentality for the boozy, poetic republic to the south...