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Bobby did not pick himself an easy case as a starter. He appeared as amicus curiae in Saunders v. Gray, an immensely complicated case in which Georgia's county unit voting system is challenged. That system which was overturned last year by a lower court, gives nearly eight times...
The ICC's 8-to-3 decision cheered most other Eastern railroad chiefs, who are pushing merger schemes of their own, all designed to cut costs by eliminating overlapping lines, yards, offices and work forces. "This is a great forward step." said Chairman James M. Symes of the Pennsylvania...
The real Establishment, he suggests, is not one of people, but of things: the unwieldy Victorian inventions, from the railways to the political parties, that contemporary Britain accepts as unchangeable. As Deputy Prime Minister "Rab" Butler said of the civil service: "You know it's the best machine in...
Averting a Lynching. On the touchy issue of race relations, the Independent was remarkably outspoken for its time. "The Jew and the Negro are not unlike our own people." said the Bank Clerk, a front-page character who held weekly colloquies with the Soda Jerker. "We have our own ignorant...
Although such forthrightness helped reduce race trouble in northeast North Carolina-it remains remarkably free of it to this day-it only heightened the Independent's unpopularity. In a backhanded compliment, the State Port Pilot over in Brunswick County raised this brag to its masthead: "Most Cussed Newspaper in...