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...judge who ousted him, Roman Catholic John E. McGeehan, "had last distinguished himself by trying to have a portrait of Martin Luther removed from a courthouse mural...
...Higher courts upheld Justice McGeehan's decision not on its merits but on technicalities. One obstacle: New York City's Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia blocked the Board of Higher Education by refusing to let the city's counsel appeal the case...
...York, Russell's cause is still being fought by the Higher Board of Education, but is lost in a maze of technical difficulties. The root of the trouble is that the city council refused to appeal the McGeehan decision ruling out; Russell and the present attorneys have as yet failed to establish their legal right to act for the Board. That group however, recently voted ten to nine to pursue the case...
...only is there the moral issue in New York but also the two requirements that appointees must be citizens and must pass a qualifying examination. In both of these, Justice McGeehan found Russell wanting, even before reaching the moral grounds...
Last fortnight New York Justice John E. McGeehan upheld Mrs. Kay, revoked the appointment. Said Earl Russell: "It strikes me between the eyes. . . . Precisely the same accusations were brought against Socrates -- atheism and corrupting the young." Socrates was forced to drink hemlock. Russell is booked to lecture at Harvard. --Life Magazine...