Word: districts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen, a dwindling union that takes in annual dues totaling $612,000, was bringing on troubles it could ill afford. Its outlaw strike against eight U.S. railroads elicited a contempt citation from U.S. District Judge Alexander Holtzoff in Washington, who ordered the brotherhood to meet a return-to-work deadline or be fined $25,000 a day. Only after the four-day walkout ground to a halt last week did the full magnitude of the railway union's troubles come into focus...
...give Rawlings more than an outside chance of overcoming Judge Smith's longtime reservoir of respect and affection. Admitting that what he calls "the dinosaur vote" is still strong in Smith's bailiwick, Rawlings hopes that the district's increased Negro vote may prove the decisive factor-as it could in the other two races. Statewide, 61,096 more Virginia Negroes are enfranchised than in 1964, increasing total Negro voting strength to 205,000, or 19.7% of the Old Dominion's 1964 election turnout. The increase is particularly significant in Virginia, since for years less than...
...wider area and are less subject to local pressures. Actually, many Southern federal courts use a "key man" system of drawing up venire lists, the key man being a "good citizen" (a middle-class white) who suggests other "good citizens" for jury duty. The nation's 91 federal district courts have been free to pick juries in different ways, thus compounding the subjectivity of state courts. Many federal jury lists simply duplicate state lists...
...their rights nonetheless seek to remove their cases from state to federal courts. Federal judges no longer send these cases back to state courts so readily as they used to; the 1964 Civil Rights Act permits remand orders to be appealed. Negroes still face a major hurdle: Southern federal district judges. Many are scrupulously fair, notably Alabama's Frank Johnson, an Eisenhower appointee, and Florida's Bryan Simpson, a Truman appointee. But others are deeply segregationist, a problem largely attributable to the Kennedy Administration, which surprisingly named such men as Mississippi's William H. Cox, who once...
...Metropolitan District Commission yesterday installed three large light-posts along the Charles River bank across from Leverett and Winthrop Houses to prevent muggings in the Weeks Bridge area...