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...male, all-white jury for equal justice under law, regardless of race. "This law-enforcement proposition has got to be consistent if it's going to be successful." In his charge to the jury, Judge Walker ordered that the case be considered "without regard to race, color or creed...
...University must by its very nature transcend mere secular considerations; it is an institution dedicated to matters of ultimate concern. For teachers with less of the Tillichian "vision," however, the questions of religion in education appear more controversial, for they are bound to earthly considerations of sect and creed...
Segregationist by creed but able lawyer by profession, Mississippi's Governor James Plemon Coleman is no man to fool around with racist lawlessness. Last month, when a bunch of masked toughs broke into a jail at Poplarville (pop. 2,500) to abduct and kill an accused Negro rapist named Mack Charles Parker, Governor Coleman acted swiftly and sensibly: he asked the Federal Bureau of Investigation to enter the case. From that point on, event followed event with the predictability of a Pearl White flicker...
...came to serve, in big segments of the labor movement as protection for power-hungry and corrupt leaders of top-dog labor. Moreover, labor's leaders, having won their economic battle, failed to work out a philosophy going beyond oldtime A.F.L. President Samuel Gompers' antiquated one-word creed: "More." Armed with special privileges written into law, labor kept pushing for more "more," often at the expense of the economy's stability and orderly growth...
Maxon's creed: "'Museum' is no synonym for 'graveyard,' 'antique shop' or 'warehouse.' Personally, I believe that the museum must show its treasures with awareness of salesmanship and showmanship which is evident in a first-rate shop window or a Broadway show." Last week the new boss briskly proposed some changes for Chicago: "I hope some time to restore chronological sequence in the displays, and I should like to re-establish the American wing. Also I want to have two galleries devoted to Chicago art. We have an obligation...