Word: lawing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...front-row seat was Alabama's attorney general and Governor-elect, John Patterson, 37. Patterson, at hearing's start, had tried to protest federal meddling in state business, had been gaveled into silence by Vice Chairman Robert G. Storey, dean of Southern Methodist University's law school, and principal interrogator for the commission. Thereafter Patterson counseled witnesses into obstinacy...
...Nevada Law...
Harry Bridges"-prematurely, as it turned out. For one thing, it was too late in the day for even a quick Nevada wedding. For another, as besieging newspapermen pointed out when Bridges jauntily introduced them to his bride-to-be next morning, the archaic, unchallenged Nevada law forbade it. The future and third Mrs. Bridges, 35-year-old Noriko Sawada, a dainty, dignified San Francisco law secretary, is a Nisei...
...individual, not the race . . . If we are to take the proposition that all men are born free and equal seriously, then we can't very well ignore the implications." After a brief wedding a few minutes later, Bridges allowed cordially: "You can't hold a law that was established way back around 1860 against the people of today...
...dogged one-fourth who wanted escape from the programed life, however expensive it might prove to be, stepped up their campaigning, got valuable assistance from their official landlords. When a federal law was passed allowing residents of the atomic cities of Richland and Oak Ridge, Tenn. to buy property, G.E. happily put 4,800 homes on the market, sold all but 600, followed up by selling commercial property also. After another petition for incorporation was circulated, Richlanders poured out last July to approve...