Word: stoutly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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ORVILLE A. HARLAN Houston Stout Defense...
...Honorable Judge Juanita Kidd Stout [April 16] must be the greatest Philadelphian since Benjamin Franklin, doing more to advance her race than any person since Booker T. Washington. Everybody should have a mother like hers. ERNEST L. MCLAUGHLIN Union...
...away from people the drive to work. I deplore a system that regards the indiscriminate handing out of checks as its prime function, that subsidizes the lazy and immoral home with the tax payer's dollar." To stem Philadelphia's juvenile crime (up 27% last year), Judge Stout, who is married but childless, advocates taking children away from relief homes and raising them in public dormitories where they can be urged to buckle down to schoolwork...
Knives & Chains. The trouble is that Pennsylvania is woefully short of facilities for problem children on the scale she envisions. By tossing the kids in jail, Judge Stout has now so dramatized the problem that the state legislature may soon relieve Philadelphia by opening up an old prison and building a new detention center for delinquents. To officials who lament the cost, Judge Stout snaps: "Let them raise taxes. Which is more important: rehabilitation or continued high crime rates...
...American Civil Liberties Union is not happy with Judge Stout's self-styled "swift justice," which may overlook constitutional niceties. She is also in continuing physical danger; one spectator shakedown in her courtroom recently produced 22 weapons, ranging from knives to scissors to an 18-in. dog chain. Armed with round-the-clock bodyguards, however, the judge goes serenely on her way. "If they can frighten the courts," she says, "they will just take over. I don't intend to be frightened...