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...from court to court, Houston and Marshall won a key desegregation case against the University of Missouri Law School in 1938, and suddenly the N.A.A.C.P. was deluged with a flood of new cases to try. To raise cash, it spun off the legal fund in 1939 as a tax-exempt organization...
...refuse to hire any person because of race, religion, sex or national origin. Labor unions could not deny membership or apprentice training on such grounds. Neither could employment agencies refuse to refer applicants. Colleges run by religious organizations in which religion might be a valid employment requirement would be exempt...
Many of Dirksen's amendments apply to this section. He would extend coverage to federal employment and union hiring halls and exempt Indian reservations and cases involving national security. He would eliminate the commission's right to file suits. Instead, it would investigate and could recommend that the Attorney General intervene in suits...
Some churches-notably the Methodists and United Presbyterians-concede that there is an inequity in the laws and either pay their full taxes or a sum equivalent to levies from which they are exempt. But a majority of the clergy probably agree with Mrs. Murray's Baltimore opponents, who are determined to battle her up to the Supreme Court over what one Roman Catholic lawyer sees as "the beginning of a hostile interpretation of the First Amendment." Says he: "As a person, Mrs. Murray is not important. But what she's trying to do is important...
...main streets in Rome's three-square-mile central area, all parking-even stopping-was banned. Everywhere else, parking was limited to an hour, and all parked cars were required to display cardboard disks showing the hour of arrival and the hour of expiration. Not even M.D.s were exempt. "A doctor can do almost anything in an hour," a traffic official declared. At the same time, a fleet of midget buses was launched to ferry people from parking areas on the edge of the disk zone to the center of the city...