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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...
...their own lifetime as Rayner Goddard. Unlike one famed predecessor. Sir Edward Coke, he made no great contribution to English law, but his blunt style and sharp knowledge of the law made him one of the most feared and respected men in England. The son of a London solicitor who had heard law around the house since childhood, Goddard, after Oxford, once stood for Parliament as the "Purity Candidate" against a man who had been divorced. His defeat was so disastrous that he never dabbled in politics again. In 1923 he "took silk," i.e., became a King's Counsel...