Word: legalizes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From a tense week of legal march and countermarch, political charge and countercharge, the U.S. emerged one big step behind its starting point. Plain for the world to see and ponder was the sorry possibility that Little Rock's Central High School, integrated last year in a costly, painful victory for law and morality, might reopen next week lily-white...
...Time Has Not Come." The week's legal maneuvering began in St. Louis, where the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals by a 6-to-1 vote ringingly struck down Arkansas District Judge Harry J. Lemley's decision postponing integration in Little Rock until early 1961 (TIME, June 30). Arkansan Lemley had based his cooling-off decision on the truism that "popular opposition to integration" had led to "serious violence" in Little Rock...
...just three days after rendering its decision, the St. Louis court brought a temporary legal stalemate by granting to Little Rock's harried school board a 30-day stay in executing the court's integration order so that it could be appealed to the Supreme Court of the U.S. In a hurried move to settle the matter before Arkansas' schools open, the Supreme Court scheduled one of its rare special sessions for Thursday of this week...
...built up when Smith was state highway department counsel under Governor Ratner. ¶ As chairman of the Teamsters' Central Conference, Hoffa approved payment of $114,719 in salaries for four Teamster officials serving prison sentences. Furthermore, over a four-year period he approved a staggering $625,726 in legal fees for the defense of arrested Teamsters. ¶ A bitter 72-day Teamster strike in 1953 and 1954 against four Wichita, Kans. taxicab companies, marked by dynamitings and cab burnings, was settled finally when the Teamsters agreed to pay the cab companies $15,000 if they forced drivers to join...
...impression Red justice had made on his delegation of U.S. lawyers. In the Soviet Union, said Rhyne, "among the most important questions put to every defendant in a criminal case is, 'Are you a member of the Communist Party?', and, though [the Russians] deny it, the Soviet legal system provides a different type of justice for Communists and non-Communists...