...With Justice For All?
A Cold War USA AAR
UPI News Item
Washington, DC
April 23, 1946
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Harlan F. Stone, last of the "Nine Old Men" of the Supreme Court's pre-Roosevelt era, was stricken with acute angina yesterday while reading his dissent in Girouard v. United States. The Court went in to early recess, but this morning the Chief Justice returned to the court, appearing hale and hearty and in good spirits. Stone (73), has been Chief Justice since 1941, having been originally appointed to the Court by Calvin Coolidge, for whom he served as Attorney General. Widely seen as a liberal and a proponent of Roosevelt's agenda, it is expected that Stone will be a firm supporter of President Truman's agenda in the coming years. A Cold War USA AAR
UPI News Item
Washington, DC
April 23, 1946
Associated Press News Item
Greenville, South Carolina
May 5th, 1947
Trial began today in the case of 31 white men accused of brutally murdering black taxi-driver Willie Earle, in what is likely the first lynching trial the South has seen since Reconstruction. For the first time in recent memory, the new reformist governor J. Strom Thurmond (a decorated veteran of the 82nd Airborne Division) ordered the state constabulary to investigate the murder, and invited the FBI to help procure evidence and build a case against those responsible for the act. In a strong statement, the governor declared "I do not favor lynching and I shall exert every resource at my command to apprehend all persons who may be involved in such a flagrant violation of the law." It remains to be seen whether the all-white jury will be swayed by the efforts of the federal and state governments, but it is clear that a new era has dawned in South Carolina. Greenville, South Carolina
May 5th, 1947
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