Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...them by the judge was "extremely harsh," they voted 11 to 1(a majority of nine would have been enough under California law) to award damages on this score: $131,500 to the Gottsdankers and $15,800 to the Phippses. As Cutter's attorneys got set to appeal, 44 others claiming to be victims of Cutter vaccine prepared to press suits totaling about...
Last week the Cincinnati dentists held a closed membership meeting to hear Peter Garvin's appeal. By expelling him, argued Garvin, his fellow dentists denied him the constitutional right to "freedom of expression" (a right which is profitably exercised by such famed columnist-M.D.s as Chicago's Herman Bundesen and Walter Alvarez). Nor have dental society officials criticized the content of his columns, which frequently urge "consultation with your family dentist." By a margin of only five votes (79 to 74) Dentist Garvin's colleagues voted nonetheless to sustain his expulsion...
Dentist Garvin vowed to appeal his case to the state and nationa' dental societies and the courts, if necessary. His column, ballyhooed by General Features ("More reader interest than a) politics, b) baseball, c) Elvis Presley, d) canals, or e) Marilyn Monroe, COMBINED!"), is running in about 50 papers. Meanwhile, the Des Moines Register and Tribune Syndicate is starting a rival column written by a Cleveland dentist who is retired and thus need not heed the cries of his fellow dentists should he touch them on a sensitive nerve. Dentist Garvin himself is so flooded with would-be patients...
Bench Warrant. In Tallahassee, Fla., Circuit Court Judge Vassar B. Carlton, whose plea for a divorce from a "nagging and badgering wife" was rejected by a fellow justice, declared in an appeal to the State Supreme Court 'that "a judge has a right to a divorce as much as anybody else...
...call for a general strike was issued by an underground organization calling itself the Patriotic Junta. Its appeal was aimed at forcing out perez Jimenez or at least gaining a voice in the government for the political opposition...