Word: ronalds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Implementing its 1954 school-desegregation decision, the U.S. Supreme Court called for "all deliberate speed" in integration, and it named the judges of the federal district courts as its agents for seeing that the order was carried out. It was in that capacity that North Dakota's Judge Ronald Davies sat last week in Little Rock. It was in line with the policy set forth by the Supreme Court that the Administration fought its battle in the courtroom, and not with such grandstand stunts as having President Eisenhower fly to Little Rock and lead Negro children by the hand...
Federal Judge Ronald Davies glanced at his case file, routinely called up the next item of business: "Civil Case No. 3113 On A Motion For Preliminary Injunction." But Case 3113 was far from routine; it brought to a 'historic showdown the issue between the U.S. and Arkansas' Democratic Governor Orval Faubus, who had defied the law of the land in calling out his National Guard to prevent school integration...
...School Superintendent Virgil Blossom became the first-but by no ' means the last-spectator to fall sound asleep. Again, while addressing himself to another motion, Faubus Lawyer Walter Pope said his whole argument was in his brief, and someone had once told him that judges could read. Smiled Ronald Davies: "Yes, I am one of the judges who can read." Moments later the Faubusinspired motions were quietly and firmly overruled...
...National Guard troops. It is equally demonstrable from the testimony here today that there would have been no violence in carrying out the plan of integration." The preliminary injunction was therefore issued, ordering Faubus and his National Guard officers not to interfere with integration. Snapped Judge Ronald Davies: "Stand in recess," and left the bench...
...Ronald Norwood Davies, do solemnly swear that I will administer justice without respect to persons, and do equal right to the poor and to the rich, and that I will faithfully and impartially discharge and perform all the duties incumbent on me as U.S. judge for the district of North Dakota according to the best of my abilities and understanding, agreeably to the Constitution and laws of the United States. So help...