Word: sturgess
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...City's Benton Boulevard when a car pulled up short before one of the trim houses. Out stepped the driver and made his way to a sign in the front yard of No. 3714. Watching him from the window of his darkened house was the Rev. Earl T. Sturgess of Southeast Presbyterian Church. During the week he has watched many other motorists stop to examine his sign. It looks like a For Sale sign, like those in front of many houses in the neighborhood, but instead it reads...
...area recognized as the "Negro district." The pattern was familiar and explosive: panic sales by white residents, mass meetings, homemade bombs, a few fast-buck real-estate men cashing in on the white flight from Negro neighbors. Few liked to talk about it in public, but one Sunday Pastor Sturgess brought the subject out into the light. "Whether it be a matter of selling one's home or fleeing a fire, panic has made more fools, undone more men and killed more people than any other thing," he said from his pulpit. "Christianity has been established by those...
William A. Carroll 3L and Richard A. Myren 3L argued for the Internal Revenue Department and downed Philip O'Brien, Jr. 3L and W. Tarver Rountree, Jr. 3L, who took the side of Peter Sturgess, in the case "Peter Sturgess v. the Commissioner of Internal Revenue...
...argument centered around whether Sturgess, a grocer, should have to pay taxes for years when his books were cleared by agents. Sturgess had changed his bookkeeping system in the meantime. The decision handed down was that a man was responsible for his books at all times, and that an outmoded way of keeping them was irrelevant...
...champions, 6-3, 13-11. Doris and Australia's Frank Sedgmari won the mixed-doubles title, 7-5, 6-2, from the Australian team of Mervyn Rose and Mrs. Nancye Wynne Bolton. Sedgman and McGregor successfully defended their title by downing Drobny and South Africa's Eric Sturgess...