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Viewed in the perspective of a long battle against arbitrary judicial power, against government by injunction, the decision marked an advance for civil liberties. Before passage of the Norris-LaGuardia Act of 1932, federal judges often issued injunctions against strikes and other union activities, leveling harsh sentences for criminal contempt...
Exasperated beyond endurance, New Hampshire Republican Norris Cotton finally let fly at the fact that his fellow civil rights proponents were "contribut ing innocently or inadvertently to the so-called filibuster." He said he had been holding a watch as Virginia Democrat Willis Robertson, who makes no bones about being...
The final standings in the nation's first presidential primary of. 1964 were: Lodge, 33,007 votes; Goldwater, 20,-692; Rockefeller, 19,504; Richard Nixon, also a write-in candidate, 15,587; Maine's Senator Margaret Chase Smith, 2,120; and hapless Harold Stassen, 1,373. Almost all...
Most Cursillistas regard the little course as a turning point in their lives. Parish priests cite thousands of Sunday-Mass Catholics who became daily communicants and gave countless leisure hours to work for the church. Some clerics who distrusted the "Spanish" intensity of the course have changed their minds after...
At first, backers of Arizona's Republican Senator Barry Goldwater figured that he had at least a 4-to-l lead in New Hampshire over New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller. But ever since, they have watched that margin melt away. First came the attrition caused by President...