Word: topeka
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hear No Evil. In Topeka, Kans., when Federal District Judge Arthur Stanley told a witness to "speak up," a juror broke in to say: "It doesn't matter, your honor; I wasn't listening anyhow...
Eleanor Roosevelt, 74, talked and talked in New York for Averell Harriman, dashed out to Topeka, where she made her comparisons between her husband and the White House's present resident: "We have never lacked greatness but at the moment we lack leadership. Education has been lacking for the chief educator, the President of the United States. It has been...
...held forth for 15 years. Scrivner should win against Lawyer Newell George-but Kansas is holding a right-to-work referendum and labor is working furiously in industrial Kansas City, which lies in Scrivner's district. Similarly, in the First District, Republican Incumbent William Avery should win against Topeka Lawyer Robert Domme but is plagued by a migration away from the farm towns to Topeka, where labor's C.O.P.E. is battling right-to-work. And in the Third District (in southeast Kansas, where lead and zinc mines are on their uppers), the Fourth District (including industrial Wichita...
However, Mr. Whiteside observed, there have been great changes in American society since then, making such a turn against precedents desirable. Also, the fourteenth amendment now makes the Bill of Rights applicable on the state level. In 1954, in the Brown vs. Topeka School Board case, the Court ruled that segregation "materially impedes education" and in order to belie its precedent legislation gave testimony from sociologists which backed the Court's decision...
...eyes, the coolly beautiful woman saw that she was still as the world once knew her. Last week Cinemactress Gene Tierney was back in a Hollywood dressing room-back from a mental institution. Was that foreboding phrase a shame to hide? Not a bit. To ex-Patient Tierney, 37, Topeka's famed Menninger Clinic was an exultant experience...