Word: offing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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For various reasons the Boynton case was a less-than-ideal test of such a far reaching issue. Any decision would almost certainly have been taken to apply to the touchy sit-in demonstrations that have flared up in eating places all over the South. But the U.S. Justice Department...
With an almost audible sigh of relief, the Court ignored the constitutional issues, confined itself to the Justice Department's argument, and last week decided by a vote of 7 to 2 that the terminal restaurant, even though privately owned, was an integral part of the busline's...
So anxious was the Supreme Court to make sure that its decision would not reach too far, it took the trouble to specify about limitations. "We are not holding," wrote Justice Hugo Black for the majority, "that every time a bus stops at a wholly independent roadside restaurant the act...
On the sidewalk outside Manhattan's general sessions court, Hulan Jack dazedly spoke to newsmen: "I say to all of you that I am fully convinced of my innocence." A few moments earlier, an all-white jury had reported itself as totally unconvinced of Jack's innocence. Hulan...
Specifically, the jury found Hulan Jack guilty of 1) permitting one Sidney J. Ungar, a tenement tycoon and real estate speculator, to foot the $4,400 bill for decorating Jack's Harlem apartment at a time when Ungar was eagerly seeking a $30 million slum-clearance contract from the...