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...social condition. Most of the tenants going on strike have already intuited the deeper reality--perhaps because they are on the butt end of it--and have come up with necessary virtues to boot. Pillsbury will now have to decide, "on balance." Whether to side with them or evict them. James A. Sleeper School of Education
...Harvard in a way "deliberately designed to provoke authority to be repressive." The forcible occupation of University Hall was the tactic decided upon, and the Pusey administration , Lipset suggests, responded just as the radicals would have wanted it to when Pusey called in outside force to evict the protesters. (The outrage of students and sympathetic faculty to the Bust was predictable, Lipset claims, because a similar reaction followed Josiah Quincy's decision to call in police to restore order after the riots...
...What crimes by unemployed veterans camping in the streets of Washington did the Attorney-General cite, calling in the Army to evict them...
...while, New York State did nothing about the invaders, hoping that the problem-and the Indians- would simply go away. Only in September did the state go into federal court seeking to evict the Indians, basing its case on the fact that the Mohawks had been pro-British belligerents during the Revolutionary War and had later signed away their lands. The Indians reject that claim. "The Mohawk land was lost by fraud, and its possession by New York State and the State of Vermont constituted] illegal usurpation," charges the Ganienkeh Manifesto...
...Ware offered to pay the tax -plus interest and penalties. Gray was not interested. The case has been up to both the Illinois and U.S. Supreme Courts, but almost every judge has seemed satisfied that a speculator can indeed get a $25,000 home for $41.57 in unpaid taxes, evict the owner and sell it for all he can. In Illinois, that is-as they say in the movies-perfectly legal...