Word: breaches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Discount houses have sprung up all over the U.S. because of 1) the big postwar increase in appliance stores which crowded the field and made things ripe for cutthroat competition; and 2) the U.S. Supreme Court's breach in fair-trade laws a year ago. Like after-hours saloons, discount houses often issue "membership cards" to their customers. Some discounters have little more than a small office and a catalogue; the customer orders from the catalogue, and the discounter calls a distributor and has the product delivered...
...that there was scarcely time for Nell Gwyn to pop out of the merry monarch's bed and slip behind the arras. The moment the good queen spied Nell's dainty slipper on the floor, she tumbled to the situation, of course, and delicately repaired her breach of court etiquette with a hasty exit and a solicitous hope that the lady might not "take cold...
...time the last gavel was rapped, the San Francisco weather had changed and so had the political climate. Ike's campaign was airborne, and Taft's flying bandwagon had taken the stiffest jolt to date. Hardy G.O.P. professionals were not likely to be swayed by either a breach of manners or a fervent speech. But they were just the ones to notice the little shifts, such as the new cordiality between the Ikemen and Earl Warren (who controls 70 California delegates) and the fact that the galleries liked...
...requirement for recognition of an undergraduate group, it may have trained the bounds of protocol and procedure, but it lid not overstress the importance of the problem. The question of the membership lists requires a full and air hearing in the Faculty, and we hope that the Council's breach of order will not dissuade the Faculty from giving this matter its attention...
After a 17-mile race through a mounting North Carolina blizzard, Mississippi's Democratic Representative John E. Rankin was arrested by a highway patrolman, charged with careless and reckless driving. Ol' John's futile defense: congressional immunity to arrest except for "treason, felony, or a breach of the peace...