Word: localism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...judge was identified as gaunt, greying Judge Raulston Schoolfield, 51, unsuccessful 1954 candidate for governor against Frank Clement and currently president of two separate Tennessee segregation societies. Six years ago 13 teamsters, including Chattanooga Local 515's President Glenn W. Smith and Secretary-Treasurer Hubert L. Boling, were indicted for dynamiting and arson during organizing drives. The 13 came for arraignment before Judge Schoolfield, who carefully studied the evidence against them and decided it was "good." In fact, testified former Court Officer James W. West, Judge Schoolfield "seemed enthused" at the prospect-possibly because earlier the Teamsters Union...
...Talk. But before the case came to trial, Local 515 cashed checks totaling $18,500, marked down the money to "attorney fees." Two days before trial, Tennessee Deputy Fire Marshal Raymond Hixon, who had gathered the arson evidence against the defendants, happened to meet Teamster Secretary-Treasurer Boling. Testified Hixon: "He told me that there was not going to be a trial. I asked him how he knew. He said that there had been $18,500 passed to quash the indictments, and there was not to be a trial." Hixon remembered that at the time "there was quite...
...indictment was quashed, the 13 freed. Later, on an appeal by the prosecution, the state supreme court reversed Judge Schoolfield, ordered that the Teamsters be tried. Later also, according to Senate investigators, Local 515 chalked off another $1,500 to legal expenses. The 13 defendants were brought to new trial. This time they were freed for keeps. The legal mechanics: Judge Schoolfield ordered the jury to return a verdict of not guilty because the prosecution had failed to prove that the 13 Teamsters committed the violent acts involved...
...crisis. Dollar reserves are down 30% since January, and President Garcia has called on Filipinos to "retrench," asked the U.S. for a $100 million loan. Fortnight ago he sharply restricted imports and dollar credits, announced a new austerity program designed to stop the drain on foreign exchange and boost local production...
...resignation has long been the aim of the Democratic Christian national government in Rome. Last week Minister of the Interior Fernando Tambroni railed against the staggering Naples deficit ($50 million for this year) and the graft, corruption and chaos of Lauro's open-handed administration. Naples' local Communists enthusiastically backed Tambroni's charges-they cannot match the effectiveness of Lauro's electioneering techniques, which include the distribution of thousands of left-foot shoes to voters with the promise of the other shoe "when you vote right...