Word: state
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Eating at the cafeteria is OUT; eating at the Metropolitan Club is IN, but it is inconceivable to refer to it as the Metropolitan instead of The Club. ¶Getting off the elevator at the fifth floor (where the Secretary of State's office is located) is IN; it does not matter if you work there...
Slumped in a maximum security cell in Mississippi's State Penitentiary, awaiting execution for the murder of a white woman in 1954, Robert Lee Goldsby, 32, a Negro, has one abiding concern: saving his skin. Last week the onetime lathe operator, whose death has been postponed five times in the past four years, won yet another legal delay, while simultaneously (and unwittingly) nudging forward the cause of Negro civil rights in the Deep South. Opening its fall term, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to review -and thereby affirmed-last January's far-reaching decision of the Fifth...
...Richard T. Rives, Alabama-born, ordered Goldsby retried within eight months (after the Supreme Court ruling) before "a legally constituted jury" (i.e., one chosen from a panel from which Negroes have not been excluded), threatened to grant Goldsby's plea for a writ of habeas corpus if the state failed to comply. Plainly implied is a warning with impact beyond Mississippi's borders: Negroes cannot lawfully be convicted of crime in counties that bar Negroes from jury service...
...were the raids discovered. Unhappily, Scotland Yardmen, after a week of fruitless investigation, admitted they could only hope for a "snout" -someone who might be tempted into talking by an insurance company reward of $28,000. They admitted, too, to a touch of regret over the new, vice-free state of London's streets. "Those girls always helped us," confided one Yardman. "They were our eyes and ears when we weren't around. This haul couldn't have been made in the bad old days...
...steamy southern state of Kerala, Communist Boss E.M.S. Namboodiripad saw his hopes of recapturing the state government go glimmering, admitted that his party's "refusal to denounce China" would strengthen the hand of his democratic opponents in Kerala's coming elections. In Bombay state, as the price of a local alliance with their old foes, the Praja Socialists, Red leaders signed a resolution expressing support for "the Prime Minister and the government of India, in defense of the territorial integrity of our great country," then muttered complex explanations to angry party diehards. Unappeased, Puran Joshi, editor...