Word: wrights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Brooklyn's Democratic Congressman Emanuel Celler, long a champion of civil rights, sees it, the chief problem is "a dislike of the unlike." Says Celler: "The Irish don't like to live among the Poles. It's the same situation." Last month, when A. Gordon Wright, Midwest director of the Commerce Department's Economic Development Administration and the son of a millionaire, moved into exclusive Grosse Pointe, Mich. (median income: $11,200), whites drove past his house screaming, "Nigger, get out!" When Massachusetts' Attorney General and G.O.P. Senatorial Candidate Edward Brooke tried recently to move...
...lonely, almost tragic thing to be made a judge and to be given no orientation in all the responsibilities that go with the job." This lament by Seattle Superior Court Judge Eugene Wright underscores the surprising fact that no U.S. law school or bar association has ever provided any training for present or future trial judges. When a lawyer is appointed or elected to the bench, he is terrifyingly on his own, and is expected to acquire the judicial craft by osmosis, or simply by virtue of his black robe...
...warmest greeting of all was given to Zephyr Wright, the Johnson family cook for 23 years. "Oh, Zassie," said Luci, "you look so pretty. I love your dress." Much was made of Zassie's fried chicken and spoon bread, without which, apparently, the Johnsons would never have endured. Zassie, at any rate, got busses from both bride and groom. When much-divorced Supreme Court Justice William Douglas came through the line, pulling along his newest young bride for introductions, the reaction was quite different. Luci's effusive manner cooled noticeably, and she offered only a perfunctory handshake...
...Luci, the last few months became a blurred montage of interviews and photographs, of last-minute domestic tips from her mother and from Cook Zephyr Wright, of shopping excursions in Manhattan and Washington, of parties and showers, of picking silverware (Old Maryland pattern) and china (Ambassador Limoges). After accompanying her father on a fast one-day swing through Indiana, Illinois and Kentucky late last month, she appeared so wan in public that the White House explained that she was exhausted, not ill. Nonetheless, at a press conference a few days earlier, Luci had proved more than a match...
Congressman Wright Patman's House Banking Committee approved a bill that, among other things, allows the Federal Reserve flexibility to 1) set varying rate ceilings on different classes and amounts of time deposits; 2) raise bank reserve requirements against time deposits; and 3) pump money into the mortgage market by purchasing the obligations of the Federal National Mortgage Association and the Home Loan Banks. The Senate did as well: a subcommittee headed by Alabama's John Sparkman voted to give the FNMA, familiarly known as Fannie Mae, $2 billion in new borrowing authority...