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...reason was that parochial schools, which enroll half the white pupils in New Orleans, get tax-paid books and supplies from the segregationist state legislature. The archbishop's flock also includes some of the South's most fervent racists, among them Boss Leander Perez, who threatened to withhold money and students if parochial schools even began to integrate...
...Harvard Young Republican Club resolved Tuesday to withhold support from Advance, a new magazine of Republican conservatism...
When clergy demand laws against gambling in a state where it is legal, or withhold communion to prevent discrimination, it becomes ludicrous to pretend that religion and government are absolutely divisible. American religious freedom rose out of such a notion, but it is only valid compared to states with established churches...
Kennedy would do well to remind the nation that the fields of civil rights and civil liberties are inseperable. In the recent case of Daisy Bates v. Little Rock, for example, the Supreme Court upheld the NAACP's right to withhold the names of its members. But in the Uphaus case, Justice Clark's majority statement bowed to the State's right to determine whether there were subversive persons in New Hampshire. Since Arkansas deems the NAACP a subversive group, Southern lawyers have been given a new legal leg to dance on, and are using...
...motion before the Cambridge City council asking the city to withhold payment of its MTA deficit until services prove, failed passage yesterday...