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...hands. Through his one good eye he views the world with the wary and defiant air of a man who suspects the worst, and expects to deal with it. Last week he was in jail and proud of it. The charge: forcibly taking the pants off an elderly solicitor...
...Nominated Solicitor General Simon E. Sobeloff to the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the Maryland (Sobeloff's home state). West Virginia, Virginia, North and South Carolina circuit...
Last week the court drew the line itself. Unanimously, the court struck down the executive claim to plenary powers. "The Government may not arbitrarily restrain the liberty of a citizen to travel," said the decision, written by Circuit Judge Charles Fahy, onetime U.S. Solicitor General. "Discretionary power does not carry with it the right of its arbitrary exercise...
...lawyers for Big Steel, and was its associate counsel during the investigation of the steel industry by the Temporary National Economic Committee shortly before World War II. A methodical worker with a quiet wit and a knack for getting along with people, Blough became U.S. Steel's general solicitor in 1942, and executive vice president four years...
...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...