Word: virginia
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When Harry Ashmore, executive editor of the Arkansas Gazette described the collapse of "passive resistance" in Virginia as the fall of Richmond, he exaggerated. But if the opening of schools to Negro students in Norfolk and Arlington cannot be compared to Richmond or Appomattox, it can, hopefully perhaps, be termed a Gettysburg...
RICHMOND, Va. Feb. 1--The first public school integration in Virginia history starts today at Norfolk and Arlington, where city and school officials say they expect no violence. However, a segregationist group at Arlington has announced plans for a demonstration...
...Virginia Supreme Court's right to pass on the constitutionality of legislative acts the "judicial review" principle later adopted for the U.S. Supreme Court (Marbury v. Madison, 1803) by Chief Justice John Marshall of Virginia-was laid out in 1782 by Justice George Wythe with the new Court's very first decision: "If the whole legislature should attempt to overleap the bounds, prescribed to them by the people, I, pointing to the Constitution, will say to them, 'Here is the limit of your authority; and hither shall you go, but no further...
...VIRGINIA'S HOWARD WORTH SMITH. 75, is the chairman of the House Rules Committee, which must pass on all legislation except appropriations bills. Rules can bottle up a bill or define the terms of its floor consideration, e.g., by setting the time limits on debate, by deciding whether amendments may be made from the floor. Such a power position is made to order for lanky (6 ft. 160 lbs.), courtly Howard Smith, possessor of the bushiest eyebrows south of John L. Lewis. A Byrd organization Democrat, he is the recognized leader of House Southern conservatives, uses his committee to fight...
...Virginia's Smith especially subscribes to the latter when civil rights bills are before his committee. In 1956 he delayed Rules consideration of a civil rights bill for more than a month, was finally forced, by a signed petition from his own committee, to hold hearings. For days Southern Congressmen paraded their objections before Rules -and all the while Judge Smith kept counting committee noses. Finally one afternoon he found that no quorum was present -and down went his gavel. Missouri's Dick Boiling, leading the civil rights fight within Rules, realized he had been caught...