Word: davises
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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C. DAVIS HAINES
Faced with the Justice Department's complaint and request for an injunction against Terrell County's registrars, Georgia-born District Judge T. Hoyt Davis reasoned that the Constitution does not forbid racial discrimination by private citizens, and that the Civil Rights Act might permit suits against private citizens...
In the Supreme Court's contrary opinion. Justice William J. Brennan Jr. sternly lectured Judge Davis. "The delicate power of pronouncing an Act of Congress unconstitutional," said he, "is not to be exercised with reference to hypothetical cases." The act was clearly constitutional in its application to Terrell County...
There Was a Little Girl (adapted by Daniel Taradash from Christopher Davis' novel) is the kind of play that particularly needs everything in it done right-and where almost nothing is. It tells of a well-brought-up 18-year-old girl, played by Henry Fonda's promising...
In after-hours Myrick and Ives achieved distinction in other fields as well. Ives wrote atonal, craggy symphonies and tone poems full of early American nostalgia (Three Places in New England, The Concord Sonata, Symphony No. 3) which won him a Pulitzer Prize and recognition as one of the leading...