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Word: sues (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Regardless of the merits of his legal arguments, there are several objections to the test-case procedure. As Howe himself has admitted, the government might not sue to recover the misallocated funds; it might merely refuse to grant Harvard any additional money. Secondly, University officials could conceivably be prosecuted for willfully and illegally disbursing government funds. Such a criminal action could tend to obscure publicly the central issues of the dispute. Finally, even if the government did sue to recover misspent funds, a complex financial imbroglio could result, for students who get NDEA funds need pay back only half...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Indentured Ideas: The Price of the NDEA | 10/6/1959 | See Source »

...wrong, is held in awe as a kind of national monument. When Saynatsalo allowed the electric-light company to erect a hideous neon advertising sign that marred the view, Aalto led a night boat-raiding party, stoned the offending sign to smithereens. The electric company started to sue for damages, then thought better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: PRICKLY INDIVIDUALIST: FINLAND'S AALTO | 10/5/1959 | See Source »

Members' Rights. Labor-boss coercion is outlawed, members get the unqualified right to vote in union elections (by secret ballot), may speak up against policies, get fair and public hearing in disciplinary procedures, sue in U.S. courts if justice is not provided under union procedure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Labor Reform Act of 1959 | 9/14/1959 | See Source »

...Married. Sue Simone Ingersoll, 21, New Mexico's peppery redheaded entry for the Miss Universe contest who defied Albuquerque Archbishop Edwin V. Byrne's ban on Roman Catholics' entering bathing-suit contests, but finally withdrew; and Sam Francis Jr., 23, pre-law student at the University of New Mexico; in a civil ceremony, in Juarez, Mexico...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Aug. 24, 1959 | 8/24/1959 | See Source »

Regarding poor little Sue Ingersoll and her inflammatory bathing suit [July 27]: Can anything be more apparent from this episode than that the Roman Catholic hierarchy is using any and every means to control our public life? Pretty soon we won't be able to do anything much in a public way without the permission of Archbishop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 17, 1959 | 8/17/1959 | See Source »

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