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Dwight Eisenhower, Richard Nixon, Pennsylvania's Governor Scranton and Michigan's Governor Romney have all orated for Dumont. New Jersey's Republicans-faction-ridden and critically short of funds after twelve years in the wilderness-were hopeful that the Genovese case would sweep them back into the Governor's mansion and increase the present G.O.P. preponderance in the state legislature, where all 89 seats are up for election. "This is one issue the man in the street really understands" insists Dumont...
Wary Legislators. As an interim reform, the Scranton administration last week pressed state legislators to raise magistrates' salaries, require new ones to be lawyers, cut the present number to 18, and drastically alter the case-assignment system to prevent collusion. Even that modest package is given scant chance of passage. As a troubled Scranton aide points out: "These men are probably the most powerful politicians in the state. They do favors for people every day, and state legislators are scared to death of them...
Nelson Rockefeller and Pennsylvania's William Scranton could use the veto power with a view to discrediting the poverty program. "These Northern Governors will screw this thing up so bad they can blame it all on Johnson," he charged. "This is a segregationist amendment. I understand that. I'm a segregationist...
Last week N.A.A.C.P. pickets ringed Philadelphia's State Office Building as Girard's trustees conferred inside with Pennsylvania's Governor William Scranton. Giving point to the urgency of the talks, a scuffle broke out between police and pickets: five Negroes were arrested, bringing the total to 24 since the N.A.A.C.P. started picketing Girard's "Berlin Wall" last...
...broke a similar color bar by voluntarily admitting Negroes and thereby starting a court test of its power to do so. Because private discrimination is lawful, ruled a federal court, Tulane was free both to exclude Negroes-and to admit them. After last week's meeting with Governor Scranton, Girard's trustees tentatively agreed to undertake a new legal attack on Girard's will. Their tactics have not yet been chosen, and meanwhile, the N.A.A.C.P.'s Cecil Moore has no intention of calling off his pickets. Says he: "We will never call off demonstrations until...