Word: alston
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...letter was signed by Daniel S. Cheever '39, Alston Burr Senior Tutor at Winthrop, and James W. Fowle, assistant Senior Tutor...
...last week the white Citizens Councils that began last summer in Mississippi had spread to at least four Alabama counties. Their purpose, said Lawyer Alston Keith, chairman of the council in Alabama's Dallas County, is "to make it difficult, if not impossible, for any Negro who advocates desegregation to find and hold a job, get credit or renew a mortgage." So far, the council's bark has been worse than its bite, but the bite is taking effect. Examples...
...three-day tournament in Baltimore, which he won as usual, Eddie went to Niagara Falls and ran most of his opponents off the courts. In the finals, he faltered for a moment, got the range again and took a close match from the former U.S. champion, FBI Agent Joe Alston...
...loss (to the Army), of Wilmer ("Vinegar Bend") Mizell. They have a 25-year-old, $100,000 shortstop named Alex Grammas, out of Kansas City in Class AAA, who should give Regular Solly Hemus a run for his position. For another $100,000 they have hard-hitting Tom Alston, a first baseman and the first Negro on the Cardinal roster. And they have an impressive list of seasoned money players: Outfielder Enos Slaughter, Second Baseman Red Schoendienst, and Lefthander Harvey Haddix, not to mention the one and only Stan Musial...
...been peppered with questions. He is as proud of these spirited exchanges as Davis should be of his immunity from them; Marshall rightly regards it as a personal tribute that the justices expect him to meet the frankest and most penetrating questions they can put. After his argument in Alston v. School Board, involving racial discrimination in salaries of public-school teachers in Norfolk, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit paid Marshall a rare compliment of another kind: still in their robes, the three judges stepped down off the bench to congratulate him on his masterly presentation...