Word: enjoined
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sculpture, slapped a court complaint on outspoken A. & P. Millionheir Huntington Hartford, who once wrote of the modern artist: "Engrossed with evil, [he] has wandered off to some streamlined inferno in which he has burned in effigy the normal people of the earth." Purpose of the complaint: to enjoin Hartford from dubbing his proposed $2,000,000 museum on Columbus Circle "The Gallery of Modern...
Norfolk (six high schools shut down). In two similar lawsuits naming Almond and various state officials as defendants, 15 white parents asked a federal district court to 1) declare Virginia's school-closing law unconstitutional, and 2) enjoin Almond & Co. from meddling with Norfolk schools. The school closings, argued the suits, violate the children's constitutional rights, do them "irreparable injury." and impose unfair financial burdens on the parents. Norfolk's Committee for Public Schools sent Almond a 6,000-signature petition asking him to get the schools reopened fast...
...through our windshields with suspended St. Christopher replicas to win the protection of a patron saint," said the Rev. Martin L. Goslin of Seattle's Plymouth Congregational Church, "but how much do we do for a moral frame of mind? Assuredly we are called upon . . . not necessarily to enjoin people to turn the other cheek, but more appropriately to turn the other fender...
...call on the Democratic party line brought Speaker Sam Rayburn out fast. Mr. Sam hurriedly rounded up the Democrats. He even took to the well of the House to enjoin one Democrat from going over to the G.O.P. side, exchanging finger-waggling arguments with Missouri's Democratic Clarence Cannon, a longtime rival of Carl Vinson's, who was voting with the Republicans on one amendment...
...exclude bids from other manufacturers. As a result, said the complaint, more than 20 G.M. competitors have withdrawn from bus-building since 1925, and no new company has come into the field since 1946. The Government asked the court to "perpetually" prohibit G.M.'s monopolistic practices, and to enjoin G.M. from supplying more than 50% of the bus requirements of four principal bus operators (Greyhound Corp., National City Lines, New York City Omnibus Corp., Public Service Coordinated Transport...