Word: solicitor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years to make up its mind, the Memphis decision put a damper on the expansion plans of many gas companies; they feared it would take too long to get needed rate increases. In asking the Supreme Court to reaffirm the FPC's longstanding rate-fixing practice, the solicitor general noted that "a substantial portion" of the $283 million in planned pipeline projects had been suspended after the lower court's decision...
Every student in the College will be contacted by an entry solicitor and asked to pledge a pint of blood for donation from Dec. 8 to 12. There is a similar plan for Radcliffe. Solicitations will last through Friday...
...pointed argument against the proposition: "I worry about the white children in Little Rock who are told . . . that the way to get your rights is to violate the law. It should be affirmed . . . that Article VI of the Constitution means what it says." Echoing Marshall's plea, U.S. Solicitor General J. Lee Rankin rose to remind the court of the obligations of school boards and state authorities to uphold the Constitution. "The court," said he, "must say throughout the length and breadth of this land: There can be no equality of justice for our people if the law steps...
...meant; what he had obviously wanted to say, as he had said many times before, was that Americans should exercise patient judgment in trying to understand one another's problems. Indeed, just 90 minutes before he went to his press conference, the President had conferred with U.S. Solicitor General J. Lee Rankin. U.S. Legal Spokesman Rankin had told the President, point by point, what he intended to present as the position of the U.S. Government at the Supreme Court's Little Rock hearing next day. That position was for broader action against segregation than even the National Association...
...extraordinary session, took their places at the bench. On the right, facing the justices, sat counsel for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, petitioners. On the left sat counsel for the Little Rock school board, respondents. Near by, in traditional cutaway and striped trousers sat Solicitor General J. Lee Rankin, representing the U.S. as amicus curiae (friend of the court). The issue before the court, like all great issues, was basically simple: whether the rule of law or of violence should prevail at Little Rock's Central High School. The legal situation was more complicated. Last...