Word: conduction
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...used the occasion to set down the legal principles that are the keynote of his conduct in the Little Rock crisis, and that would apply to integration crises to come. Reading from a paper that he and Attorney General Brownell had drawn up, the President noted that: 1) local, not federal, authorities have the responsibility for drawing up school integration plans; 2) local authorities and federal courts-not the President-have the job of setting the desegregation timetable to suit the Supreme Court dictum of desegregation "with all deliberate speed," but 3) a desegregation order from a federal court "must...
There, in the shadowed quiet of St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dr. Porcello flung the rocks at a stained-glass window. He missed, pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct. Later he learned that his daughter's marriage to her 30-year-old, former prep school English teacher had taken place three hours before Porcello, a member of the Greek Orthodox Church, and his Roman Catholic wife hadn't objected to their daughter's choice, merely wanted her to wait until she was older. Last week, in New York Magistrate's court, contrite Dr. Porcello ("I am glad...
...private shouldered a no-parking sign like a rifle and marched off. Car horns brayed; a band came out of a restaurant, and somebody organized a snake dance. Before the celebration broke up at 3:45 a.m., the police had arrested seven men-three for drunkenness, four for disorderly conduct. "Any Milwaukeean ought to be forgiven, because last night was a night to remember," said Judge Robert Hansen next day. "Case dismissed...
...Portland, Me., nabbed for disorderly conduct, Genevieve Lynch, 24, was being ushered into a cell when she tore the badge off the arresting patrolman, grabbed his tie and tried to choke him when he went after it, bit the leg of a second cop rushing in for the rescue, dug her teeth into the hand of a lieutenant who hoped to rescue his two casualties, was finally subdued and put in a cell by a fourth policeman who hurriedly slammed the cell door shut-square on his left hand...
Leach added that the recent Russian successes have been "particularly unfortunate" from defense secretary Wilson's standpoint. "The sentimental affection shown for Wilson as he is leaving office obscures the fact that his conduct of the Defense Department has not been such as to maintain superiority over, or even equality with, the U.S.S.R...