Word: soled
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...third federal judge for Utah, and a House subcommittee has approved repeal of a grandfather clause, which could also cost Ritter his power to assign cases. (Congress exempted 32 sitting chiefs of two-judge districts when it mandated an age 70 retirement policy in 1958; now Ritter is the sole survivor.) Either step would please Utah Senator Jake Garn, who brands Ritter "a disgrace to the federal judiciary...
...former silver mine laborer and longtime University of Utah law professor, Ritter was appointed to the bench by President Truman in 1949. As a non-Mormon liberal, he was bitterly opposed for what was then the sole Utah federal trial judgeship in an acrimonious confirmation fight punctuated by charges of personal immorality and corruption. Ever since Territorial Justice James McKean hauled in Polygamist Brigham Young on adultery charges in 1871, federal judges have traditionally warred with the Utah Establishment; Ritter proved to be particularly contrary, and the only substantial victory against him?installation in 1954 of a second Utah federal...
...closer to home. To indulge those who had themselves ignored the middle class doctrine of self-improvement would only encourage their own tendency to gratify themselves. The only answer that remained was reform. If the middle class was to save society from the touch of the "undeserving" poor, the sole solution was to save the "deserving" poor by recreating them in a middle class image of themselves...
...telegram to South African Prime minister John Vorster and D.B. Sole, South Africa's ambassador to Washington, Bok called Qoboza's imprisonment "a travesty of justice under normal civilized standards" and asked for his immediate release...
...spokesman for Sole said yesterday the ambassador has not yet received the telegram, which Bok sent Monday...