Word: thereupon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...disallow the legislature's right to select the Governor. The special three-judge panel followed the U.S. Supreme Court's one-man, one-vote declaration of 1962 and its 1963 decision overturning Georgia's county-unit system of voting. State Attorney General Arthur Bolton thereupon announced that he would appeal the decision to the Supreme Court. Acting with unprecedented speed, the Supreme Court, even before it received formal notice of the appeal, set Nov. 30 as the date to hear arguments...
With that track record, the Comptroller of the Currency finished his term and agreed to take a high position at an as yet unnamed Midwestern bank. Thereupon, President Johnson last week appointed a successor who everybody hopes will be just as effective but somewhat less abrasive than Saxon...
...Republicans tried feverishly to anticipate Shapp's strategy, Democratic bigwigs belatedly sought to win the parvenu's allegiance. At a banquet in Harrisburg, ex-Governor David Lawrence, longtime Democratic kingmaker, allowed: "Crow should have been the main dish. I must admit I am eating mine." Shapp thereupon served him another portion. After the dinner, he charged-with some reason-that Lawrence's organization had "stalled" Democratic progress, and demanded-unsuccessfully-that he be given control of the machine...
...last visit to one of the totally bare cells, claimed Jordan, he was kept naked for almost eleven days, deprived of heat, light, bedding, ventilation, medical treatment and the most basic sanitary facilities. He appealed to San Francisco's U.S. District Judge George B. Harris, who thereupon indignantly issued his circuit's first federal injunction against state prison officials. Impressed with Jordan's "clear and convincing" testimony, which vividly described cells caked with human excrement, Judge Harris saw a patent violation of the Eighth Amendment's guarantee against "cruel and unusual punishment." He ordered California...
...twelve days of deliberation over a motion to take up the measure, its supporters made their second, foredoomed attempt to choke off debate, but mustered only a 52-to-41 majority for cloture-ten short of the necessary two-thirds of those present and voting. Majority Leader Mike Mansfield thereupon recited the epitaph. "It would be futile," said he, "to prolong consideration of this issue...