Word: courting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...never a particularly distinguished jurist; it was not his game. But he did make his voice heard in defense of civil liberties-in which he included the right of Jehovah's Witnesses even to blaspheme his own Catholic Church. He protested the court-martial of the Japanese General Homma, who ordered the Bataan death march, as no trial at all but a "revengeful blood purge." Gradually he withdrew from social life. His heart had never been quite equal to his spiritual drive, nor was it equal to the exacting, wearing work of the court. His Bible...
...When the court recessed for the summer, Frank Murphy went home to Michigan. There, one day last week in the Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, night closed over the career of the apostle of the dew and the dawn. Stricken by coronary thrombosis, Frank Murphy, 59, died in his sleep...
Democrat Irving has been the duly elected representative of Harry S. Truman and 250,000 other constituents of Missouri's Fourth District since last November. A fortnight ago, in a court suit, 85 members of his union suggested that he was also a crook...
...built by the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. with some generous financial help from New York City (the city condemned the property so that Metropolitan could buy it easily, exempted the company from real-estate taxes on the new buildings for 25 years). Three Negro veterans, denied apartments, went to court. They argued that the city itself was encouraging racial discrimination...
Last week, New York State's highest court, by a 4-10-3 vote, upheld Metropolitan's Jim Crow policy. The Negroes' next stop: the U.S. Supreme Court...