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...holiday. In defiance of Judge Wright's restraining orders, the legislature has issued written demands to the school principals not to integrate and had voted to remove those members of the school board who had moved to obey the federal action. Another resolution prohibited inter-school transfers without legislative consent. In an appeal to the public, the House urged white parents to boycott the two integrated schools. At present, with these and other measures rescinded by Judge Wright, Governor Davis is under injunction forbidding any further legislation designed to impede desegregation...
...Advise and Consent, Drury...
...years of voluntary isolation: "Every Frenchman, whatever his tendencies had the troubling suspicion that with the General vanished something primordial, permanent and necessary which he incarnated in history, and which the regime of parties could not represent. In the sidetracked selected in advance, which could be invoked by common consent as soon as a new laceration threatened the nation...
...election had been rigged, sued in 1957 to prevent him from taking over the presidency. Hoffa made a deal that most Hoffa haters thought was a fatal blunder: if he could move in as "provisional" president, he would permit a board of monitors to oversee Teamster affairs. The resulting consent decree called for the board to consist of one insurgent-appointed monitor, one Teamster-appointed monitor, and a chairman to be named by Federal Judge F. Dickinson Letts. Ever since, Jimmy Hoffa and his battery of 100 high-priced lawyers have been busy harassing the monitors by legal and other...
FICTION 1. Advise and Consent, Drury...