Word: district
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...even before the hearing opened, that it would exert "an immediate and irreparable chilling effect" on the witnesses' rights under the First Amendment. A longtime challenger of the committee, the A.C.L.U. did not really have much hope of stopping the hearing. But, to nearly everyone's astonishment, District Court Judge Howard Corcoran granted a temporary restraining order to allow a three-judge appeals panel to deal with the constitutional question. Corcoran's action was unprecedented-no judge had ever before enjoined a congressional committee hearing-and it brought a roar of protest from Congressmen. Just before...
...Connor then won three terms in the state senate, where his record tended toward conservatism. He has changed his views considerably since then, now makes a big point of his liberalism. In ten years as Queens County district attorney, he established a solid but unexceptional reputation, staking out a claim to progressive principles. He was the only New York district attorney to oppose capital punishment. Last year he wanted to run for mayor but had to settle for the city council presidency nomination. The machine's candidate for mayor, Abraham Beame, lost to Republican John Lindsay...
...from lawyer to judge] modestly, graciously and with dignity. He is not required to be a jolly good fellow nor to depreciate himself over his new lot." Judges old and new also study the ten judicial commandments composed by Chief Judge Edward J. Devitt of Minnesota's U.S. District Court, which range from the cautionary "Remember there are no Unimportant Cases" to the evangelical "Pray for Divine Guidance...
...Poison. Most textbook publishers insist that they do not produce separate editions for North and South. Though they are not aggressively marketing multiracial books in the South, they do expect to get more sales there. Some publishers tell school-district leaders that books bought with federal aid must be racially balanced. Actually, the law has no such requirement and, says an official of the U.S. Office of Education, that kind of federal control would be "just political poison-totally out of the question...
Odili, whose father was such a one, remembers the "days when the District Officer was like the Supreme Deity and the Interpreter the principal minor god who carried prayers and sacrifices to Him." The pay and cringe benefits were enough to support Odili, 34 other children and five wives in high style, with a goat killed every week, and lashings of palm wine to wash down the yams. But times change. The white man has gone, and Odili must emerge with his emergent nation and attach himself to black power in the person of a cynical grafter named Chief Nanga...