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...JULIUS SUMNER MILLER...
...echoes of half-forgotten battles and the seeds of conflict yet to come. In Montgomery, Ala., where the Confederacy was born, obdurate Negroes persisted in their 3½-month-old boycott of a bus company that apparently was prepared to go bankrupt rather than abandon Jim Crow. In Sumner, Miss., an all-white jury decided that a white cotton-gin operator was not guilty of murder when he fired two charges of buckshot and one of squirrel shot into the body of a Negro gas-station attendant with whom he had an argument. In Washington, Texan Lyndon Johnson, majority leader...
...Charles Sumner '30 had served in the Senate for twenty years, ten of them spent on the Foreign Relations Committee. He had been in the Senate longer than any man of the day, and was respected for his great knowledge and experience in international affairs. Members of Congress generally agreed that there was not a better man for the Foreign Relations chairmanship. But many harsh and bitter words had passed between the senator from the Bay State and President Grant and his Secretary of State; Sumner was no longer on speaking terms with either of them. Many senators held that...
...Ladd case, the exception to tradition resulted from an inner-party feud. In the Sumner and Cummins instances, however, the precedent was circumvented because the Senate considered the proposed senator unfit for the position he was to occupy...
...most businessmen, the outlook for the first half of this year is for continuing fair weather. But what about the second half? Speaking last week before a group of businessmen in Manhattan, Harvard Economist Sumner Slichter said: "The outlook is for little change during the first three quarters of the year and for a rise in production in the fourth quarter...