Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Item: Cyprus (pop. 500,000), Venus' home island, promised to cause almost as much trouble as she had. The British, who run Cyprus, answered the demands of most Cypriots for union with Greece by promising a vague home-rule plan. This enraged the Turkish minority on the island. In sympathy, Turkish mobs rioted in Istanbul, and inflicted damage on their town estimated at ten times the value of the whole island of Cyprus (see FOREIGN NEWS...
Southerners charge that Marshall was instrumental in "changing the Constitution" in the Supreme Court's desegregation decision. But from his point of view -and from the court's-he merely produced new evidence to show that the old rule of separate-but-equal (Plessy v. Ferguson, 1896) did not really give the equality before the law which the 14th Amendment guarantees...
Four-fifths of its 500,000 people speak Greek; most of the rest are Turks. The Greeks claim it (though they last possessed it in 323 B.C.); the Turks don't want the Greeks to have it; and the British are only willing to talk about gradual self-rule. Even before the three foreign ministers broke off in sharp disagreement last week, the debate was transferred violently to the streets...
...Ohio, like many other states, may emphasize in Washington the problem of shifting residential populations. Because no young families are moving into the area, Toledo's Hamilton School will open next fall with a third of its classrooms empty. But the opposite is the harsh rule. Toledo's new schools in Grove Patterson and Old Orchard, for example, will be filled to overflowing. The problem for Toledo to decide: Should it try, over the protests of remaining residents, to close down its underpopulated schools, or should it keep them open to avoid having to transport its students many...
CONFLICT-OF-INTEREST problems for Government officials will be decided by Trustbuster Stanley Barnes. President Eisenhower has instructed Assistant Attorney General Barnes to rule on where the line of propriety should be drawn. Example: Is it proper for the Defense Department to award a contract to a firm whose president recently returned from a key Government post? Barnes may also bring out an official guidebook for the use of Government officials who still have business interests...