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...raising: as the highest budgetary authority of the University, they determine what areas deserve the priority of a formal drive, what will be its goals, and who should head the campaign. Individuals on the Corporation often serve on campaign committees. The President, of course, is the University's best solicitor; his development assistants try to protect him for that very reason. When it is important, he will talk with the potential donor. The Development Office may ask him perhaps 10 times a year to speak to a party, and Pusey on his own initiative may talk to a dozen people...
When the case reached the U.S. Supreme Court last fall, the California decision was endorsed by the state attorney general as well as by U.S. Solicitor General Thurgood Marshall, who argued that Section 26 "is an exercise of state power in support of discrimination." He felt that it was particularly dangerous because it was not enacted as a simple statute, but was embodied in the state constitution. To put it there, Californians resorted to the basic democratic principle of initiative and referendum. To remove it would take a similar referendum, and in the present-day U.S., argued Marshall...
Predictably, Air Force Lieut. General Benjamin O. Davis Jr., the highest-ranking Negro officer in any service-and son of the first Negro general, Benjamin O. Davis-rates high with Negro servicemen. So do such moderates as the N.A.A.C.P.'s Roy Wilkins, U.S. Solicitor General (and longtime civil rights strategist) Thurgood Marshall, Labor Leader A. Philip Randolph (who directed the 1963 March on Washington), U.N. UnderSecretary Ralph Bunche and Baseball Great Jackie Robinson. Negroes in Viet Nam show the same respect for Southern-born General William C. Westmoreland as do white G.I.s. "His position on civil rights...
...admission, however, the Justice Department continued to use the same trespassing bugs outlawed by the Supreme Court. In July 1966, Solicitor General Thurgood Marshall filed a memorandum in an income tax evasion case stating that the FBI had installed a microphone through the wall of a hotel room--in clear disregard for the Silverman decision. Before 1963, the memorandum stated, FBI director J. Edgar Hoover had the authority to order the installation of trespassing eavesdropping equipment "in the interest of internal or national safety...
...muckraking social reformer, "Peoples Lawyer" Brandeis so irked Senate conservatives (and anti-Semites) that his confirmation took more than four months, the longest delay in Supreme Court history. Even now, a Negro nominee might rouse a similar backlash, with consequent resentment by Negro voters. When Thurgood Marshall, now Solicitor General, was named a federal appeals judge in 1961, Southern Senators blocked his confirmation for almost a full year...