Word: thurgood
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...Democratic Senator Thomas Dodd. "Now responsibility and fairness will render the decision.'' After four months of sporadic hearings before a judiciary subcommittee headed by South Carolina's Olin Johnston, the Senate confirmed the appointment of a controversial Negro to the U.S. Court of Appeals. He is Thurgood Marshall, 54, longtime chief counsel to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, who has been sitting as a Second Circuit (New York, Connecticut, Vermont) judge since his nomination by President Kennedy a year ago. The Senate vote was 54 to 16, with all the nays coming from...
...enthusiastically nominated by President Kennedy, certified as "well qualified" by the American Bar Association, endorsed by the overwhelming majority of Senators of both parties. Yet for nearly a year the Senate has dillydallied over the confirmation of Thurgood Marshall as a judge on the Second Circuit of the U.S. Court of Appeals (New York, Connecticut and Vermont). Why? Because a handful of Southern Senators object to Marshall as the longtime chief counsel to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the man who successfully argued the 1954 school integration case before the Supreme Court...
...Senator Estes Kefauver, got mentioned in one list or another. Many guessers supposed that Kennedy would succumb to political temptation and appoint a Negro-among those mentioned were Third Circuit Court of Appeals Judge William Hastie, Housing Administrator Robert Weaver, and Second Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Thurgood Marshall...
...Southern Governors' Conference in Nashville, where Tennessee's racially moderate Buford Ellington beat out Arkansas' diehard segregationist Orval Faubus for the chairmanship, a reporter asked South Carolina Governor Ernest Hollings how he felt about N.A.A.C.P. Special Counsel Thurgood Marshall's recent appointment as a federal judge. Replied Hollings resignedly: "I'm just glad Martin Luther King doesn't have a law degree...
...courts moved two of the nation's most widely known men of law. The court: the U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals, which covers New York, Connecticut and Vermont and which was long graced by the presence of the late Learned Hand and his cousin Augustus. The men: Thurgood Marshall, longtime special counsel of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (TIME cover, Sept. 19, 1955), and U.S. District Court Judge Irving R. Kaufman...