Word: rightness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fortnight ago his one remaining mainstay, solid old Pierce Butler, died (TIME, Nov. 27). In silence last week he heard Justice Owen Roberts read the majority decision reaffirming the civil liberties of the U. S. citizen, proclaim the right to pamphleteer without a police license.* The decision presented no new point of Constitutional doctrine, but to many a thoughtful U. S. citizen came as a solemn reminder, in anxious days, that beneath the stated rights of citizenship lies a rock-founded base guaranteeing their preservation...
...Irvington, N. J., Los Angeles, Milwaukee, Worcester, Mass, pamphleteers, denied that right, had appealed...
...nobody could question either the friendliness to labor of Nebraska's Senator Norris, or of his right to advise it. Still one of the most imposing landmarks in U. S. labor history is the Norris-LaGuardia Anti-Injunction Act, which improved the legal status of unionism, drastically checked the granting of injunctions against unions in Federal courts (average before it was passed: 100 a year). Last month Senator Norris let it be known: "I have worked with and for labor for 30 years and I am disgusted with the situation now. . . . There is something wrong with the leadership...
...Gras morning, before the white folks' Rex comes in splendor to Canal Street, the Negroes are having their own carnival. Up squalid New Basin glides a barge, canopied in sacking, to the wharf at Rampart Street and Howard Avenue. Off the barge strides the King of the Zulus, right royal in black underwear, a hula skirt of sea grass, a tin crown. His sceptre is a broomstick, topped by a snow-white rooster. Preceding him is his Queen, behind are his capering dukes. The King mounts his throne-a decrepit easy chair on a mule-drawn wagon. Up darktown...
...Pleasure Club were running this funeral, reduced it to a respectable affair with only one band, pall bearers in tuxedos and white gloves, no grass skirts, no coconuts. Said John Metoyer's heir apparent to the Zulu presidency, Charles Fisher: "If it was me and I died right now, I'd have the biggest funeral in the history of New Orleans. I'd want exactly five bands and all that was due me. I'd want John Metoyer to do that for me, with all the trimmings...