Word: court
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...landmark on the rolling New Jersey countryside, just 50 miles from Manhattan, for more than a century. One of its walls had fallen out, its broad porches sagged, its faded green shutters seemed ready to disintegrate. Last week when an auctioneer called for bids on it to satisfy a court order, only one voice was raised. The buyer-one Carl After of Brooklyn-got the whole sprawling ruin and a handsome set of ghosts for only...
Realistic Tears. Harold Wilson last week was in the thick of Britain's biggest, bravest dollar-export drive to date. At the British Industries Fair (in London's Olympia and Earl's Court arenas, and in Birmingham's Castle Bromwich), $40 million worth of goods from 3,000 busy factories were on proud display. Nothing was spared to impress thousands of foreign buyers who dropped in to see the wares. Queen Elizabeth and Queen Mary appeared and smiled benignly on the bustling scene. Under fluorescent lights, on 26 miles of counter, lay samples of nearly everything...
...school boards of King George and Gloucester Counties in eastern Virginia were caught on the horns of two constitutions. Virginia's constitution requires that white and Negro schools be separate; the U.S. Constitution, as interpreted by the Supreme Court, requires them at least to be equal in facilities, courses of instruction and quality of teachers. But in King George and Gloucester Counties, as the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People pointed out, the counties' separate schools were as different as black & white...
...heat out of old oil drums converted into makeshift stoves. It had rickety outside privies and so little classroom equipment that not even the most elementary science courses could be given. When the N.A.A.C.P. found that conditions in Gloucester followed much the same pattern, it decided to go to court. Result: last summer, a federal judge in Richmond ordered the Gloucester and King George school boards to "equalize" facilities...
...Morals') were "worse than useless," and that, considering everything, King George had not even made a respectable beginning. As for Gloucester's Negro schools, the exposed and battered stovepipes were still there, and the toilet facilities were still inadequate. The N.A.A.C.P. took the two counties back to court...