Word: seek
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...return put Johnson in a reminiscent mood. Said he: "Forty years ago almost to this very night, I left my high school diploma at home and headed west to seek the fame and fortune I knew America offered. I came back because I realized that the place to really begin was the place I had been all the time. I cannot tell you what the future will be, any more than I could have predicted, when I sat in your place, that I would be standing here tonight. But I know it can be a place in which...
...permit him to "intervene" in such cases. If granted, that would mean that federal attorneys would help to argue the case. But if the Attorney General could demonstrate a community pattern of denying free access to public accommodations, he could file a federal suit, set forth his facts, seek a court order against specific proprietors whom he considered part of the pattern...
Under the Dirksen procedure, the commission would investigate a complaint in secret and, in those states or cities that have a Fair Employment Practices law, notify the local authorities, who would have 90 days to remedy the practice. If they failed, the commission would have 90 days to seek voluntary compliance. If that too failed-or there was no local law-it would notify the person who filed the claim, and that person could then file a federal civil suit. The court could, if it wished, delay the suit for another 90 days to let local officials or the federal...
...bill would create a Community Relations Service in the Commerce Department to assist communities and individuals in resolving problems of discrimination. The Service could offer its assistance whenever "peaceful relations among the citizens of the community involved are threatened." It would be required to seek the cooperation of local authorities and to keep its activities confidential...
...retain her citizen ship on a stand-by basis for her own benefit in the event of trouble. There is no constitutional necessity for Congress to accede to her wish." The court majority disagreed. Along with Mrs. Schneider, 50,000 other ex-Americans (mostly living in Europe) may now seek restored U.S. citizenship, if not election to the presidency...