Word: suits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Federal District judge has dismissed action against all but one of the defendants in a $4 million libel suit brought by Samuel Insull Jr., son of the late utilities magnate...
With a grin, Lieut. Don Fraasa of Cincinnati extracted a small Stars and Stripes from the sleeve pocket of his flight suit. "We show the flag," he said. "Hope it scares them...
...parents and students who wanted their schools open-integrated or no. He knew too that his act defied a federal court order prohibiting him from obstructing Central High School's integration progress. Suddenly, out of nowhere, came an admitted Little Rock segregationist named Gertie Garrett to file suit against the Governor in Chaneery Court. Ostensible purpose: to test the constitutionality of the school-closing law in state courts. Though the Governor's office denied any complicity, it seemed likely that the suit was designed to 1) head off the growing parent-student clamor, and 2) put a test...
After the stunned silence Angie stood off angry questioners; the meeting broke up without taking any action. The duck-tailed haircut set soon drifted back to classes, and the N.A.A.C.P. pressed suit to force the school board to carry out the provisions of its integration plan. But Angie Evans was the center of most attention. Why did she do it? "Someone had to speak up." said Methodist Angie. "I just don't think segregation is a Christian thing...
...Chicago's South Side, onetime football fullback; she for the second time, he for the first; in a City Hall ceremony, in Chicago. Witness: Trumpeter John Birks ("Dizzy") Gillespie. The bride wore a white trapeze dress and green shoes. The witness wore a brown-and-white cord suit, pink shirt, red-and-black tie, and, on his head, a diamond-patterned, black-and-white tarboosh...