Word: processes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Court has closed this loophole. The whole story of the progress of racial equality seems to consist of a process of closing one loophole after another. New ways are constantly being found to circumvent the intent of the Constitutional guarantees of equality. For many years the Supreme Court, itself, was one of the chief sinners in this respect. It decided on somewhat dubious grounds that the 14th Amendment was meant to protect only those rights that stem from national citizenship, and that most basic civil rights are contingent upon state citizenship. The Court was disposed not to protect civil rights...
...next development was that of substantive due process, by which the Court distorted the post-civil war amendments from a protection of Negro rights into a protection of corporations to conduct their business in any way they saw fit. However, for almost half a century the Court has been in the process of slowly altering its point of view. It struck down the "grandfather clause" of the Oklahoma constitution. It has made it exceedingly difficult for the Democratic party in the South to exclude Negroes from the party primaries except by threat or use of force. It has overruled convictions...
...latest and unanimous decision the Supreme Court has established racial equality on a somewhat firmer legal footing. The processes by which the Court operates are slow. There is still much to be done before the position of the Negro in America is one of which the nation can be proud. Many loopholes remain to be plugged, and new ones will be found. It is discouraging to consider how many years must pass before the people of the United States will recognize and set upon the simple principles of justice and equality about which they can speak so glibly. Yet this...
...Poet. Whitehead's metaphysical speculations culminated in Process and Reality (1929). Philosopher John Dewey once wrote that he was not sure he understood the book, but that it was undoubtedly the most significant work in systematic philosophy since Leibnitz. Whitehead had no use for philosophic systems that split reality between mind & matter, or between physical objects and man's ideas of them. (When someone asked him "What's more important, ideas or things'?" Whitehead replied: "Why, I should imagine ideas about things.") For Whitehead, all reality was a pattern of becomings and perishings...
...Coop, was reached early this afternoon at home weher he was confined throughout the day by illness, and therefore missed the robbery. He assured all Harvard students that "dividends are unjeopardized, for the money was insured for the full amount, and the matter is now in the process of adjustment...