Word: courting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Recent decisions of the Supreme Court condoning successive trials by a state and the Federal government have caused a distinct breach of opinion among the Harvard Law School Faculty. Critics have charged that the decisions amount to legalization of double jeopardy...
...editors applauded loud and long at Castro's ringing defense of a free press, "the first enemy of dictatorship." Back in Cuba, a war crimes court sentenced former Pueblo Columnist Fernando Miranda to ten years' hard labor in the Zapata swamps for calling the Castro rebels "thieves and bandits...
...English stage, "The only thing that can be said for our movement in England is that it's not a one-man band." Only John Osborne, Tynan thinks, can rank with Arthur Miller and Eugene O'Neill. The centers of the English movement are the Royal Court Theatre near the West End, where Osborne was discovered, and the Theatre Workshop in East London, which produced Brendan Behan. "And the great thing about it," he says, "is that it is being supported by young people." The plays of this new group are being largely written, directed, and watched by people under...
...deny it merchandise, except at extremely unfavorable terms, because of pressure brought by Broadway-Hale's using its monopolistic buying power. The defendants did not deny the boycott, but claimed that the public could still buy the same goods at many other San Francisco stores. The District Court thereupon concluded that the suit was a "purely private quarrel." Flatly rejecting the argument, the Supreme Court said the conspiracy against Klor's was a full-fledged illegal restraint of trade. "As such, it is not to be tolerated merely because the victim is just one merchant whose business...
...individual businessman who is the victim of a conspiracy by his competitors and suppliers the U.S. Supreme Court last week handed a potent antitrust club. Overruling two lower courts, it ordered a trial for a private businessman on the ground that the attempted elimination of even one merchant from the market tended to monopoly...