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Slavery & Servitude. The Supreme Court also rejected arguments that forcing a motel or restaurant owner to serve Negroes amounts to "involuntary servitude" (which, ironically, is prohibited under the anti-slavery 13th Amendment) for the proprietor. Clark cited the ancient common-law rule that inn keepers must serve any well-behaved person, also noted that longstanding public accommodations laws in 32 states have never been successfully challenged...
...court dealt harshly with the claim that a proprietor who cannot choose his customers as he wishes is deprived of property without the due process of law guaranteed by the Fifth Amendment. In a concurring opinion, Justice William O. Douglas cited with approval the following argument: "The institution of private property exists for the purpose of enhancing the individual freedom and liberty of human beings," and is often restricted for just that reason. "The most striking example of this is the abolition of slavery. Slaves were treated as items of private property; yet surely no man dedicated to the cause...
Undercover Activities. What were they all doing there? Casing the joint. For zebraed old "Elmo's," Manhattan's choicest dance-and-supper spot from the early '30s until the death of Proprietor John Perona in 1961, was opening under new management...
...management's name is John Mills, and he is big: 6 ft. 4 in. and 250 Ibs. He is also big in the nightclub business, being proprietor of London's most successful version of the El Morocco formula: Les Ambassadeurs, with its subsidiary discothèque called The Garrison and its gambling room called Le Cercle. Almost everyone Mills asked advised him not to buy Morocco, which had been falling off since John Perona died and his son Edwin moved the whole place two blocks farther east. And the rise of discothèques such as Le Club...
Chief Judge Charles Desmond winced at the decision. Said he in sharp dissent: The majority "is holding that there is no public policy against the use of a New York court as a collection agency by a gambling-house proprietor who is guilty of the social wrong of letting his customers gamble on a charge-account basis...