Word: appealed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hand of the Thief? As Government lawyers sat down last week to figure out their appeal from the Tamm decision and to consider the ruling's possible effects, they developed more questions than answers. Among them: ¶ If U.S. military courts cannot try civilians abroad, who can? The U.S. may give back to the foreign countries which have surrendered it by treaty, jurisdiction over American civilians with its armed forces. But would such revision meet American standards of justice? For example, should an American national be forced to stand trial before a French Communist judge? Or should...
...five school-age, part-Indian children who were falsely declared to be Negroes and were thus denied the right to attend a white school (TIME, Dec. 13, 1954 et seq.). Since the board found that it could not legally prove that the Platts are Negroes, it decided not to appeal the decision of a circuit-court judge allowing the Platts to attend whatever white schools in Florida they choose. ¶ The Regents of the University of the State of New York awarded a charter to a unique committee established in New York City by Mayor Robert Wagner. Purpose...
...have done a $9,000,000 annual business. This year it won an injunction in Superior Court, for bidding 19 of the labs to take impressions or do major repairs except under the supervision of a dentist. In the Illinois Supreme Court last week, lawyers argued the case on appeal. The defendants contended that the law would force them out of business and thus unconstitutionally deprive them of their means of livelihood...
...Bible Belt. Baptist Christianity, like many another dissident religion, found a happy home in the U.S. Its fierce egalitarianism, its jealous separation of church and state, its warm, free form of worship-all had strong appeal for the kind of man most likely to succeed on the new continent. And so the cantankerous, nonconformist, freedom-worshiping Baptists and the cantankerous, nonconformist, freedom-worshiping Americans took to each other and grew up together...
BEER IMPORTS are climbing sharply, but few U.S. brewers are worried about the competition. Although imports have jumped 20% to 4,746,000 gals, this year, most foreign beer is so high-priced (up to 100% more than domestic brands) that its appeal is mainly in big-city luxury markets, is still less than 1% of total consumption. Biggest exporters: Canada, Germany and Holland...