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Died. Alexander Holtzoff, 82, oldest member of the Federal District Court in Washington, D.C.; of a heart attack; in Washington, D.C. Brilliant and fiercely independent, Holtzoff waged a running battle with higher courts during most of his 24 years on the bench. In 1952, he refused to nullify President Truman's seizure of the steel industry, only to be reversed by the Supreme Court; ten years later, he fined the U.S. Communist Party $120,000 for failing to register as an agent of the Soviet Union, and was reversed again. As a colleague put it: "Most of us take...
...those documents that Pearson and Anderson had used in the columns that first brought Dodd's financial indiscretions to light. Dodd figured that they had been obtained illegally, and therefore he was entitled to damages for all that had happened subsequently. Last week U.S. District Judge Alexander Holtzoff agreed, ruled that Dodd could ; recover, and ordered a jury to determine how much...
Noting that Dodd was only facing up to "realities," District Court Judge Alexander Holtzoff wryly reprimanded his superiors. "As a result of Times v. Sullivan," he said, "libel law was changed by the Supreme Court in a most revolutionary manner. A court which had previously been concerned with the rights of individuals has limited the rights of holders of public office." The libel limitation, concluded Holtzoff, "is now one of the penalties of being a high official...
...Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen, a dwindling union that takes in annual dues totaling $612,000, was bringing on troubles it could ill afford. Its outlaw strike against eight U.S. railroads elicited a contempt citation from U.S. District Judge Alexander Holtzoff in Washington, who ordered the brotherhood to meet a return-to-work deadline or be fined $25,000 a day. Only after the four-day walkout ground to a halt last week did the full magnitude of the railway union's troubles come into focus...
...starter, it appeared that the brotherhood had missed the deadline by several hours; so the railroads decided to press Holtzoff to levy the threatened fine. In Georgia, a federal judge who had imposed his own deadline went ahead and fined two union officials $25,000 each. The railroads meanwhile were plotting damage suits on losses that could total up to $20 million. Nor did the union win any concessions on the issue over which it had struck: its demand for the restoration of 18,000 firemen's jobs eliminated as obsolete under a federal arbitration ruling. Said Railroad Negotiator...