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...bring pressure on owners of the unsound lodgings the committee advocated state legislation authorizing the courts to designate the city as rent receiver in-place of any landlord who falls to comply with the housing code. New York recently enacted such a rent law, considering it the surest way to force compliance with the code...
...complicate matters still more, 43 of Sarita's relatives sued to set aside the entire will, charging that Brother Leo had exercised a Svengali-like influence over a sick old woman of unsound mind. Eventually, Rome's Consistorial Congregation sent Archbishop John Krol of Philadelphia down to Texas to find out what was going...
...large private firms are worse; although most of the department stores now employ Negroes in "high visibility" positions (since Negroes make up so much of the buying market, this is not unsound policy), many industries still refuse to budge. Julius Hobson, the President of Washington CORE, explains that "we picket a company and they take their one Negro out of the stockroom and put him on display to show that they're integrated. Then the pickets leave and he goes back into the stockroom...
...Unsound Doctrine. All constitutional authorities agree that some parts of the Bill of Rights do apply to state actions. The constitutional conduit linking the Bill of Rights with the states is the 14th Amendment provision that no state may "deprive any person of life, liberty or property without due process of law." This formula clearly bars a state from, say, passing a law that abridges freedom of speech. But does it also bar "an establishment of religion" by a state? Yes, said the Supreme Court. No, said some of the experts at Chicago -at least not to the broad extent...
That doctrine is "flagrantly unsound," said the University of Chicago's Professor Kenneth Gulp Davis. "The only way a state can violate the establishment clause," he said, "is by depriving a person of 'liberty.' " The University of Pennsylvania's Dean Jefferson B. Fordham was disturbed about the same point. Justice Clark's opinion, he said, failed to explain how religious exercises could be unconstitutional "without any element of compulsion...