Word: solicitor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Court follows the advice of Southern spokesmen, it will grant at least a five or ten year "period of adjustment" to Dixieland schools before pressing integration. The U.S. Solicitor General has suggested flexibility of less sweeping import; he would give the Federal District Courts wide discretion in enforcing de-segregation in what they deemed the shortest practical time. In striking contrast to these arguments, however, the able attorneys for the NAACP have spoken vigorously for a Supreme Court decree that would proclaim "immediate integration of all Southern schools." The massive evidence of sociology that has engulfed the Court...
...Solicitor General Simon Sobeloff, a Marylander, offered "the counsel of moderation, but with a degree of firmness." This, he explained, meant no deadline for completing integration, but a deadline of 90 days (plus extensions if needed) for submitting plans to the District Courts. The lower courts should be told not to allow time "for the purpose of paralyzing action or of emasculating the court's decision." said Sobeloff, adding that the "prestige of this court is such that people will be disposed to abide by the law and not invent spurious reasons for delay...
...nation's top constitutional lawyer, a millionaire, a witty and urbane man of letters. He served his country and his countrymen well, in Congress, as Solicitor General, and as the U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's. He was the lawyer for Big Steel and for labor unions as well. He argued more cases before the U.S. Supreme Court than any other man in history. Honors fell on him like the summer rain: honorary degrees by the dozen, the presidency of the American Bar Association-finally, the votes of 8,385,586 Americans for President...
...Davis, like his father before him. went to Congress, resigned three years later to become, at 40, Solicitor General of the U.S. In 1918 Woodrow Wilson appointed him Ambassador to Great Britain. He was so successful that, when he returned home in 1921, his ship was escorted from Southampton by the flagship of the British Battle Fleet and 40 destroyers...
...been no hint of another crackdown. A few Catholic priests have preached about irreligious berceurs who stick to their rockers and miss Sunday Mass. But Premier Maurice Duplessis, who was at home last week coddling a cold, was reportedly planning no action. "What could Mr. Duplessis say?" asked Solicitor General Antoine Rivard. "He's rocking himself at the moment...