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Slaves & Skin Lotion. The origin of U.S. marshals goes back to medieval England, where the Old French word mareschal (groom) came to mean a sort of royal sheriff in charge of collaring witnesses for the King. In the U.S., when the 1789 Judiciary Act created the 13 original federal district courts, it also provided for 13 marshals to carry out court orders. Appointed by the President, those marshals were at first responsible for everything from census taking to courts-martial and taking custody of prize vessels. In the 1850s they chased fugitive slaves all over the North, much as they...
Another prime factor affecting the Negro American's personality is his reaction to oppression, to the prejudice of the majority. Pettigrew sees the origin of many of the standard Negro stereotypes in four different reactions, which he analyzes with great care...
...thousand Irish immigrants who lived in shantytowns beside the collieries and worked in the mines for wages as low as 50½ a day. On the other were the absentee mine owners in Manhattan and London, who fought the battle through their mine superintendents-usually of English or Welsh origin-and their own private army, the Coal and Iron Police...
Said De Gaulle: "It is our duty to look directly at the origin of the unhappiness that turned the capital over to the suffering and outrage of the occupation. For invasion, capitulation, oppression, were nothing more than the outcome of political, military and moral collapse, and they in turn were the result of the long weakness of our public authorities, of the grave shortcomings of our resources, and of the many uncertainties and divisions of our country...
...prepared by the A.B.A.'s workhorse committees and "sections"-permanent groups that do everything from evaluating U.S. law schools to screening nominees for the federal bench. Most section ideas get fast house approval. But not always. Last week the house tabled a resolution backing an end to national origin as a basis for U.S. immigration quotas. Too controversial, ruled the majority...