100 years ago
Nov. 19, 1918
HOT SPRINGS -- James L. Graham, two years ago a candidate for justice of the Supreme Court and once a candidate for attorney general and for governor of Arkansas, today was served with process seeking his disbarment. The action grew out of Graham being the corroborative witness in the trial of Dr. J. W. Smith for murder last week in Montgomery county. Dr. Smith had shot and killed Danny Shannon in this city last August, and the case had gone to Montgomery county on a change of venue. Dr. Smith pleaded self-defense and testified that Shannon was the aggressor. Mr. Graham on the witness stand corroborated the doctor's testimony. Prosecuting Attorney B. H. Randolph recalled every person he could reach who was first at the scene and all testified that they had not seen Graham there.
50 years ago
Nov. 19, 1968
WASHINGTON -- The United States Supreme Court upheld Arkansas's "full-crew" railroad laws Monday, saying that the place to change the laws would have to be in the state legislature or in private negotiations between the unions and the railroads, not in the courts. The 7-to-1 opinion, written by Justice Hugo L. Black, overturned a 1967 decision by a three-judge panel. The laws upheld by the Supreme Court require a crew of at least six persons on most freight trains operating in the state, and require a crew of six for switching activities.
25 years ago
Nov. 19, 1993
• The Arkansas Department of Education violated a 1989 financial settlement in the Pulaski County school desegregation lawsuit U.S. District Judge Susan Webber Wright said Thursday. But the judge stopped just short of reinstating the department as a party in the case. Instead, at the suggestion of other lawyers in the 11-year-old case, Wright is giving the state four months to show progress toward complying with the settlement. She also ordered the state to pay reasonable attorney fees to John Walker, who raised the question of state compliance.
10 years ago
Nov. 19, 2008
• With a boost from its late matriarch, America's richest family gave away more than $218 million last year, with the biggest gift going to an art museum rising not far from Wal-Mart headquarters. The Walton Family Foundation's giving comes as family members have watched their net worth surge. The charity's financial holdings continued to grow in value, too, as the estate of Helen Walton granted it more than $265 million last year, according to a tax filing it released Tuesday. The foundation's single biggest donation was a $60 million gift to Alice Walton's Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art set to open in 2010.
Metro on 11/19/2018