Word: steeled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lawyer for 24 years -last week resigned his job as general counsel of the association. With him went the other seven lawyers and seven clerical workers who made up the N.A.A.C.P. legal department. Their mass quit-in, staged in protest over the firing of another staff member, Attorney Lewis Steel, threatened to bog down N.A.A.C.P. legal action against discrimination for months...
...N.A.A.C.P.'s board of directors fired Steel three weeks ago for writing an attack on the U.S. Supreme Court entitled "Nine Men in Black Who Think White" (TIME, Oct. 25). Printed in the New York Times Sunday Magazine, the article accused the court of deferring to white public opinion and "condoning or overlooking the ingrained practices that have meant the survival of white supremacy...
...circulated the report nationally, along with well-named "ripper" amendments. Hill and Knowlton, a public relations firm versed in conservative causes, joined the campaign. (Hill and Knowlton formerly represented such clients as the gun lobby, the tobacco lobby, and the steel industry during the 1937, 1952, and 1959 strikes.) Under their direction, pamphlets of anti-labor research material were sent to newspaper writers around the county to encourage anti-NLRB editorials...
Wipe Out. During its first 100 years or so, the U.S. economy was supported by European capital. Europeans bankrolled Thomas Jefferson's Louisiana Purchase ($11 million), and European financiers were principal backers of the railroads and the steel, petroleum, mining, cotton and Southwestern cattle industries. The European stake in the U.S. peaked at $7 billion in 1914, but it took two world wars to all but wipe it out. German plants in the U.S. were confiscated in both world wars. Other Europeans sold off their U.S. holdings to raise cash for their war efforts...
...Steel, he is due to appear this week in the Supreme Court for a ruling on his application to practice before it. Approval is a mere formality. However the N.A.A.C.P. finally disposes of his case, the nine white-thinking men in black are not likely to be bothered by what he said about them...