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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Here Is an Englishman | 8/8/1955 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Invasion Repulsed | 7/25/1955 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LAW: For a Fundamental Freedom | 7/4/1955 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERSONNEL: Changes of the Week, may 16, 1955 | 5/16/1955 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Judicial Quarterbacking | 5/12/1955 | See Source »

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