Word: courting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Furthermore, Collins cites his opponent as "sponsor of the law that legalized pinball machines in the Common-wealth--which a Federal Court has ruled to be gambling devices." And, says Collins, Powers has "refused to explain why he voted against the Massachusetts Crime Commission." Finally, the Register of Probate charges that Powers' "unlimited supply of campaign funds is constantly unexplained and mysterious...
Hartnett said people at the State House told him that the ballots could not be opened without a court order. DeGuglielmo said earlier that the Commission need not follow his specific suggestions, but unless it took some constructive measures to investigate the allegations, he might seek an immediate writ of mandamus against the Commission. He added he would not wait until Monday, when the City Council has its regular meeting...
...different attitudes toward this custom. Dean Peters describes the requirement--all freshmen must wear dinks--as a sort of harmless, inoffensive jest which is not strictly enforced. Yet freshmen will attest to the violence of the rule's administrators, and only brave or foolish men will defy the kangaroo court which orders them to display their dinks and buttons...
There was nothing to indicate the high court's action was other than unanimous...
...ruling came a little more than seven hours after the Justice Department formally had requested the court to lose no time and uphold the back-to-work order...