MID-SOUTH MEMORIES
25 years ago — 1993
WASHINGTON — It took David Souter three weeks. Clarence Thomas held off for a day. New Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg waded in after only nine minutes. That was how long Ginsburg waited before asking a question Monday, her first day on the job. From that moment on, she was off and running, asking 17 questions in the first hour of arguments. She sat forward, ramrod straight, fixing a steady gaze on the lawyers who came before the court.
50 years ago — 1968
Striking city hospital workers last night worked on plans for the first mass downtown demonstration in the two-week-old strike amid reports that 25 replacements had been hired yesterday by hospital officials planning a slow resumption of health services hard hit by the strike. The 10 a.m. march up Main Street from Clayborn Temple AME Church to City Hall threatens to run into a Fire Prevention Week parade scheduled to move south on Main at 11 a.m.
75 years ago — 1943
A second tin can collection will be opened in Memphis and Shelby County schools next week, Mrs. Thomas Nelson Coppedge, education chairman, said yesterday. The Memphis Bottlers Exchange will award a $25 Savings Bond to the child who collects the most tin cans for the war effort each month.
100 years ago — 1918
The epidemic of influenza is seriously crippling industrial plants in Memphis. Yesterday the Board of Health reported 243 new cases.
125 years ago — 1893
The graduated income tax, like all socialistic and communistic theories, is beautiful and just to look upon. Certainly the man who makes $10,000 a year should pay toward the support of his government 10 times as much as the man who makes $1,000. But practically, the scheme will not work. Incomes, like personal property, can be hidden, and property which can be hidden is seldom taxed.